Search Results for: American

The Human Zoo

by Sabina Murray

A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino American journalist’s return to dictatorship-ruled Manila to research her book on tribes from a “cracklingly original” (Elle) and “singular” (New York Times…

Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu

by Les Standiford

The full and colorful history of the American resort town that redefined class, wealth, and celebrity, by Florida’s preeminent historian and bestselling author

Pass Over

by Antoinette Nwandu

From an extraordinary new voice in American theater, a startling play that examines the cyclical ravages of racial injustice and violence on two young black men.

Disasters in the First World

by Olivia Clare Friedman

From a dazzling new American storyteller—who “writes with Carveresque clarity and bite” (Janet Fitch)—an arresting debut story collection that explores the fragility of troubled lives caught in disruptive turbulence….

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov

“An act of deconstruction designed to exhume the living energies of Chekhov’s writing from under the heavy weight of ‘masterpiece topsoil.’” –Robert Brustein, American Repertory Theatre…

Twelve Bar Blues

by Patrick Neate

…shifting between continents like an old pro stamping through key changes and tackling 200 years of intermingling African, American and British history along the way.” –Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times…

Transit Authority

by Tony Sanders

…and what is so remarkable about these poems is that under the sign of doubt, art and truth become one. When, since Huck, has this been true about American palaver?…

Things Change

by David Mamet

This screenplay is a humorous burlesque of the American Dream tinged with bitter irony. It is the second film to be directed from his own original script by playwright David…

Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

…has few equals among American novelists born to the language. And I have also become convinced, after reading Steps, that he is one of the most gifted new figures to…

Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, To Kill a Mockingbird

by Horton Foote

A collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life….