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Now in a stand-alone edition, Alice Elliott Dark’s celebrated and masterful story In the Gloaming depicts a loving mother, Janet, caring for her adult son, Laird, in the last months of his life. In...

"For me, people come first," Alice Neel (1900–1984) declared in 1950. "I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being." This ambitious publication...

Traditionally, Christian martyrdom is a repetition of the story of Christ’s suffering and death: the more closely the victim replicates the Christological model, the more legible the martyrdom. But...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2024 MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARDNamed a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALOn the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her...

Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made...

A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.In stories that are more personal than any that she’s written before, Alice Munro pieces her family’s history into...

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some...

The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetryA Penguin ClassicElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece,...

A RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIESForty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic...

The discovery of the first species of African hominin, Australopithecus africanus, from Taung, South Africa in 1924, launched the study of fossil man in Africa. New discoveries continue to confirm...

Cars, trucks, Yaya, and Boo! Play hide-and-seek with two lovable dogs and twelve exciting vehicles in Andrew Knapp’s latest board book.Is that Yaya taking a ride on a fire truck, or Boo hiding in a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key...

Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood...

Als Alice een haastig, sprekend, wit konijn achterna holt, komt ze in een heel wonderlijke omgeving terecht. Alles is daar anders dan in de gewone wereld en ze ziet er eindeloos veel sprekende dieren...

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.Celebrating its...

The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations.An NYRB Classics Original Nixon in China and The Death of...

This is the first full-length study of Scottish royal government in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ever to have been written. It uses untapped legal evidence to set out a new narrative of...

As a rule, a good novel does not always make a good play--especially a novel as unconventional as this one by Dylan Thomas. But Andrew Sinclair's brilliant adaptation of Adventures in the Skin Trade...

Published to stellar praise, The World Has Changed boasts revelatory conversations between Walker and other literary and cultural icons--including Howard Zinn, Pema Chödrön, Claudia Tate, Margo...