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The Battle

by Patrick Rambaud

“History writ large, bold, vivid, and real: mesmerizing and authentic.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)…

The American Home Front: 1941-1942

by Alistair Cooke

“Revealing portrait. . . . A vivid, endlessly interesting view of the home front.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Anthology of Japanese Literature

by Donald Keene

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology.

About My Life and the Kept Woman

by John Rechy

“A small-town lad’s awakening, sexual and intellectual–which takes him to big-city demimondes and books that begged, in their day, to be banned. . . . Keenly observed and well-written–readers will…

Cities

by John Reader

Declared “the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of the city” (The Times, London), this is a magisterial exploration of these defining artifacts of civilization….

The Journal Keeper

by Phyllis Theroux

“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an…

The Retreat

by Patrick Rambaud

“In The Retreat, a novel much praised for its level of historical detail, French writer Patrick Rambaud locates little grandeur in the ghastly carnage of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. ….

Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold

by Mark Cocker

“Cocker has written a book on a broad subject, the kind that professional historians too rarely produce. . . . Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is a heroic attempt…

A Symphony in the Brain

by Jim Robbins

“If you thought biofeedback was a passing fad, freelance journalist Robbins will enlighten you. . . . [A] fascinating medical history of the therapy . . . At the heart…

The Dress Lodger

by Sheri Holman

“Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes…