Search Results for: American
The Steal
by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting.”—Washington Post “A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York Times In The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew…
Black Cloud Rising
by David Wright FaladéAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were…
P. J. O’Rourke
P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) was an author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores…
The Black Cabinet
by Jill WattsA magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano…
Topsy
by Michael Daly“Michael Daly vividly revives a rollicking pachydermal tale that riveted New Yorkers a century ago.” —New York Times…
Brown Dog
by Jim Harrison“Brown Dog is . . . vividly, evocatively alive. . . . These novellas read like a nuanced conversation between author and character. . . . Masterful.” —David Ulin, Los…
The Deserter’s Tale
by Joshua Key“Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . Key’s clear voice rings out . . . with anguish and a frankness that invests the…
Neither Snow Nor Rain
by Devin LeonardFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
John Rechy’s handwritten edits to City of Night
…Stonewall, in the early days of a renewed struggle for gay rights it helped galvanize — John Rechy’s City of Night is a landmark of American fiction, offering an unabashed,…
A Q&A with Anton Hur, translator of Love in the Big City
…a reader who might not speak Korean, know about Korean culture, or identify with the LGBT+ community? When I read Hosam Aboul-Ela’s Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial…
