Wild Minds

The vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth century

Sharp

From celebrated literary critic Michelle Dean, a powerful portrait of ten women writers who managed to make their voices heard amid a culture of sexism

Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

“A better case can be made for the claim that Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man actually affected history than for other books so far published in the series, and Christopher…

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“So Brave, Young, and Handsome is a sharp and brainy redemption tale, with all the twists and turns and thrills of a dime-store western. . . . [Enger’s] laid claim…

Raymond Chandler

“A skillful treatment . . . of the frequently muddled life of the writer who elevated crime fiction to widely acknowledged eminence.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The New Great Game

“A compact style and a sharp eye for detail . . . help the reader digest a huge and complex subject. . . . [Kleveman] is clearly an intelligent observer…

Mozart in the Jungle

“Her description of life in the famous Allendale building…is delightful, as are her portraits of fellow musicians and her stories of life in the pit.” –Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles…

Lord of the Barnyard

“Lord of the Barnyard is an arctic blast of fresh air and a far cry from the formulaic writing so prevelant in much contemporary fiction . . . [a] memorable,…

Levi’s Children

I Want to Show You More

“Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O’Connor . . . Quatro has a poet’s compound eye ….