Search Results for: American

The Spirit of Zen

by Alan Watts

“Alan Watts is the brain and Buddha of American Zen.” –The Nation…

Citizen Tom Paine

by Howard Fast

“Howard Fast has taken a figure out of American history and by the intensity of his emotional sympathy and intellectual response has made him into a living man . ….

Terrence McNally

…of TV scripts, including Andre’s Mother, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of…

Recollections of the Golden Triangle

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

“[Recollections of a Golden Triangle] could be read as the French New Novelist’s tribute to the vibrant Latin American fiction that his own early works helped to inspire. . ….

Evolution

by Eileen Myles

…by Eileen Myles, Evolution, finds our game-changing writer keying lines in an idiomatic, euphoric style that the New York Times has called “one of the essential voices in American poetry”…

How I Became Hettie Jones

by Hettie Jones

“This is a story every American ought to read; written by someone who is generous and loving. The writing is easy, effortless, honest, like a letter from a friend, but…

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…

Deviant Behavior

by Mike Sager

“Mike Sager’s keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavior is a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city.” —George Pelecanos, author of…

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and a political activist. The enduring characters he created include Sam Spade (The…

Conviction

by Elizabeth Winthrop

The story of a young, American woman’s misguided journey to join ISIS and the grief of the mother she leaves behind—a gripping and thought-provoking exploration of loss, empathy, and hope…