The New Book of Lists

“Packed with more fascinating, trivial, vital, and perverse non sequiturs than you can shake an encyclopedia at.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Bible

“Karen Armstrong preaches the gospel truth in The Bible, explaining how the spiritual guide for one out of three people on the planet came into being and evolved over the…

Grove New American Theatre

“[Ethyl Eichelberger] is…a rare and idiosyncratic comic spirit . . . [He] punctured pretension while retaining his sense of the ridiculous.” –The New York Times…

To the New Owners

From the celebrated, bestselling journalist, and memoirist Madeleine Blais, the story of a family home on Martha’s Vineyard.

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

A Storm in Flanders

A reissue from the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, A Storm in Flanders is a fascinating history of the four-year battle of Ypres, the most notorious and dreaded place in…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Answer Is Never

…as a kid–what it’s like to awaken to a sense of possibility, and to realize that what you’ve grown up with is not what you’re stuck with.” –The New Yorker…

The Perfect Summer

…sets a lively, theatrical pace and makes good use of recurring characters. . . . [There are] many glittering pieces in Nicolson’s book.” —Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review…

It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris

“Astonishing . . . A love story that just won’t quit.” —Edwidge Danticat…