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A powerful collection of poems about family and grief—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San...

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How...

Collected texts by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston.Jill Johnston—cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon—began her career at the Village Voice as a critic...

On February 23, 1778, Frederick William Baron von Steuben reported to General George Washington at the Continental Army's bleak winder encampment at Valley Forge. Speaking virtually no English and at...

Concentrating on the work Marianne Moore produced during the first two decades of her long career (1915–36), John Slatin's closely documented account of Moore's poetic development affords a radically...

"D. T. Suzuki entered the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in 1951 through a Rockefeller Foundation grant and soon joined the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, where he...

"This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the 'New Negro,' charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly...

"Tracing the origins of the modern short story, Michael Gorra provides the first fully realized picture of a century's worth of great tales. The Storytellers offers a far-reaching account of the rich...

New Jersey’s legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire,...

NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural...

A powerful collection of essays on race and gender in contemporary Buddhist practice by one of the leading thinkers in the area.Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An NPR Best Book of 2022"The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply...

In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth...

Il riconoscimento - l'agnizione dei latini, l'anagnorisis dei greci - è uno dei più grandi scandali della letteratura: ha luogo nell'azione drammatica, nel romanzo, nell'opera, nel cinema, e spesso...

The only picture book biography of Dudley Randall--a poet, publisher, and leader of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s--from Ezra Jack Keats Award Winner Don Tate and Coretta Scott King Illustrator...

With bolder-than-ever flavors and spectacularly scientific techniques, cookies have truly never been more fabulous.One of NPR's "Books We Love" 2022"Do we need another cookie book? As far as I’m...

How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish...

Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea. He studied with Aristotle in Plato's Academy, and became a respected member of that school. During Plato's third trip to Sicily,...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKTired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...It started with...

A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial tests her faith and her marriage in this moving novel from the author of Time After Time and The...