Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards

Best-selling political humorist P.J. O’Rourke writes the mirthful political theory companion to his classic mirthful political science book, Parliament of Whores….

The Book of Gin

…mixed with an entertaining and wholly accessible era-spanning history of one of the world’s most storied spirits.” —Brad Thomas Parsons, author of Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All…

Give War a Chance

“Mocking on the surface but serious beneath, sharply attuned to quotidian hypocrisy and contradiction…this book contains some of O’Rourke’s best work to date. When it comes to scouting the world…

Harlem

“[A] panoramic history . . . Gill blends high-density research, political and cultural sophistication, and narrative drive to produce an epic worthy of its fabled subject.” —Edward Kosner, The Wall…

High Lonesome

“Barry Hannah writes the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America today. . . . High Lonesome collects thirteen stories, a handful of them of startling unexpectedness, with…

Hue 1968

From “a master of narrative journalism” (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War….

The Hungry Gene

“Compelling. . . . Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell takes us into the wide world of obesity, seeking answers to how we got here and how we can get back to…

It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris

“Astonishing . . . A love story that just won’t quit.” —Edwidge Danticat…

Levi’s Children

The Lieutenant

“[A] richly imagined portrait of a deeply introspective, and quite remarkable, man.” —Alison McCulloch, The New York Times Book Review…