The Answer Is Never

‘sharp and winning. . . . [Weyland] is at his best when he writes about what skating gave him as a kid–what it’s like to awaken to a sense of…

Annabel

Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s….

George Washington’s Expense Account

Bongwater

“Bongwater is one of the coolest books of the year. Hornburg explodes the whole grunge mythos by taking it out of the realm of the flash photo spread and giving…

The China Dream

“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.” —Peter Wonacott, The Wall Street Journal…

The Devil Is Here in These Hills

From a celebrated labor historian, the definitive chronicle of the fight for freedom by West Virginia coal miners, an important chapter in American history.

Halsey’s Typhoon

“Absorbing . . . A vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea.” —Publishers Weekly…

In the Shadow of the American Dream

“He could leave toothmarks on the memory … Many who have encountered him on the page or on the wall can still admire the raw passion, intelligence, and transforming energy…

The Industrial Revolutionaries

“[An] engaging survey . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of…

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychology of sex. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but…