184 results for '"Leslie Orrey'

The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit, from celebrated author Leslie Marmon Silko Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains...

Classic Anthropology is Bennett's label for the work produced by anthropologists during the period 1915-1955, which many believe represents the most productive era in the discipline's history. It is...

Jim Panzee, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling Grumpy Monkey series, is very grumpy when his plans for the day are ruined when Oxpecker persuades him to babysit her egg.Jim wakes up to a...

A soaring and heartfelt story about love, forgiveness, and how innocence makes us all rise up.All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook is a powerful middle grade novel, perfect for fans of Wonder and...

For over thirty years, George Kateb--along with John Rawls, the late Judith Shklar, and Sir Isaiah Berlin--has been one of liberal political theory's most distinctive voices. An eloquent spokesman...

What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained...

The second volume in this series continues the high standards set by the first. The three editors have followed the vision of the late Leslie Brown and organized a team of internationally known...

A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age "Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so...

Exposes vastly under-explored topics compared to other media reports and books on Jeffrey Epstein. How did Jeffrey Epstein manage to evade justice for decades? Who enabled him and why? Why were legal...

"Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn't miss this for the world."--Leslie Jones When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing...

Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally...

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year“A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of...

Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika Jones Gail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid...

Contemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in AmericaThe Great Migration (1915–70) saw more than six million African...

“The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life.” —Leslie JamisonParis Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune’s 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club’s...

Early modern rulers believed that the more subjects over whom they ruled, the more powerful they would be. In 1666, France's Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert put this axiom into...

Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as...

A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers."The Waterbearers is one of the most beautiful and truthful books I’ve ever read." —Imani Perry, National...

In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrapped--Princeton began honoring talented literary...

Taut and spellbinding, Immersions by Kyle McCarthy follows the aftermath of a celebrated dancer's abrupt decision to quit her company and join an enclosed convent in France, and her younger sister's...