Search Results for: American
Jessica Anthony
…American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, the Summer Literary Seminars fiction…
Chris Offutt
…is included in many anthologies and textbooks, including Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Food Writing, and Modern American Memoirs. He grew up in the hills of…
The House of Morgan
by Ron Chernow“As a portrait of finance, politics, and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite…
Jerzy Kosinski
…at Wesleyan University; subsequently he taught American prose at Princeton and Yale universities. He then served the maximum two terms as president of the American Center of P.E.N., the international…
Much Depends On Dinner
by Margaret Visser“Fascinating . . . Margaret Visser is a gifted informal writer, and these chapters combine a wealth of unusual information with extreme readability. . . . In short, Visser whetted…
United Nations
by Stanley MeislerWith four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN’s last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past….
Chinese Prodigal
by David ShihFrom an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country
Turning Japanese
by David Mura…sansei–a third generation Japanese-American . . . Drawing on his own history of repressed racial self-consciousness, Mr. Mura is quite good on the sexual politics of race. . . .His…
Fresh Medicine
by Phil Bredesen“Philip Bredesen knows the American health care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work. His perspective is unique and wise. If…
