Search Results for: American

Barry Gifford

…the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. David Lynch’s film based on Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival…

Before the End, After the Beginning

by Dagoberto Gilb

A raw, honest, and personal new collection of stories from acclaimed storyteller Dagoberto Gilb, “an important voice in American fiction.” (Annie Proulx)…

The Lincoln Miracle

by Ed Achorn

The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history—Abraham Lincoln’s history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential election

The Refugees

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

…the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is a collection of stories imbued with Nguyen’s extraordinary gift for writing, exploring questions of home, family, immigration, and the American experience….

The Devil Is Here in These Hills

by James Green

From a celebrated labor historian, the definitive chronicle of the fight for freedom by West Virginia coal miners, an important chapter in American history.

Grove at Home: November 8-14

…last week’s election, in an extraordinary essay published by the New York Review of Books, Shawn ruminates on the development of American politics, and American political rhetoric, in the years…

Sightseeing

by Rattawut Lapcharoensap

“Lapcharoensap is a commanding, animated tour guide, and a lot more than that–he can write with the bait and the hook of genuine talent. . . . [He] has a…

Anzio

by Lloyd Clark

“Highly readable, and of much interest to students of WWII history.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Savior and Seducer

by Thaddeus Russell

From the author of A Renegade History of the United States, a boldly persuasive, provocative counter-narrative that reframes our understanding of America’s role in the wider world…

White Protestant Nation

by Allan J. Lichtman

…Karl Rove, but is deeply embedded in more than a century of American politics and culture.” —Robert Griffith, author of The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate…