The School on Heart’s Content Road

…You might not agree with everything in it, but you might want to open it and read it. She’s talking to you.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review…

A Primitive Heart

“As the characters play hide-and-seek with themselves, we’re forced to come out of hiding to shift our own positions and philosophy. Rabe has a way of implicating the reader–of creating…

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…

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

“Brewster and Broughton . . . have written a lively and—to anyone with a more than casual interest in the history of popular music in the latter half of the…

Stern

“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…

What It Is Like to Go to War, by Karl Marlantes

From the author of the New York Times best seller Matterhorn, which has sold over 250,000 copies, What It Is Like to Go to War is a powerful nonfiction book…

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.” —Megan O’Grady, Vogue…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Jasmine

“A fable, a kind of impressionistic prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today; Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded.” –The New York Times…

Woodcuts of Women

‘dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and…