By its Cover

Commissario Guido Brunetti must question his own assumptions about culture, virtue, and class in order to solve a shocking case of rare book theft from a Venetian library.

Budapest 1900

“John Lukacs is in many ways an old-fashioned chronicler, an “impressionistic historian” as he himself says at one point, evoking with considerable artistry the vibrant colors, pungent smells and melancholy…

An Italian Education

Heart of a Dog

Written in 1925 and unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987, Mikhail Bulgakov’s satire is as ferocious and timely now as when it was written….

Antarctica

“Reading Irish-born Claire Keegan is like succumbing to a drug: eerie, hallucinogenic, time-stopping.”—San Francisco Chronicle A new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegan’s debut story collection featuring…

Chinatown and The Last Detail

Endpapers

A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff

Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams

“The show is Terrence McNally at his most impudently hilarious and shrewdly satirical. See it an weep for joy.” –John Simon, Bloomberg News…

Grove at Home: May 23-29

…his greatest honors yet, while a number of friends, collaborators, and fellow travelers — Tom Petty, Rubin Carter, Sam Shepard, many others — have passed away. “Dylan had already received…

Grove at Home: May 9-15

…Farrakhan Factor remains one of the key books to understanding Farrakhan’s life, legacy, and message. With contributions from a number of prominent Black writers — including Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Crouch,…