
2001: A Space Odyssey
Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction classic that has changed the way we look at the star...
View full detailsWritten when landing on the moon was still a dream, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction classic that has changed the way we look at the star...
View full detailsThroughout her career, Mary Oliver touched innumerable readers with her brilliantly crafted verse. In this box set, containing her four most recent...
View full detailsThe first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Steph...
View full details“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-yea...
View full detailsWhen her husband of thirty years is killed, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. In a desperate attempt to heal her fractured family,...
View full detailsWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the wo...
View full detailsThe poems of Hafiz are masterpieces of sacred poetry that nurture the heart, soul, and mind. With learned insight and a delicate hand, Daniel Ladin...
View full detailsCritically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for...
View full detailsOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse ...
View full detailsAnne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who is mistakenly sent to a pair of siblings who had wanted to adopt a boy to help with the work on their...
View full detailsThe legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...
View full detailsFor several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs...
View full detailsWe're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handba...
View full detailsThe legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...
View full detailsIllustrated by Carly Gledhill Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives a...
View full detailsIllustrated by Carly Gledhill Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives a...
View full detailsBedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives and colourful illustration. Des...
View full detailsIllustrated by Carly Gledhill Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives a...
View full detailsBedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives and colourful illustration. Des...
View full detailsBedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives and colourful illustration. Des...
View full detailsIllustrated by Carly Gledhill Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character driven narratives a...
View full detailsThe astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexuall...
View full detailsFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact...
View full detailsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversie...
View full detailsIn this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Franci...
View full detailsWith two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children’s favorite punching bag. But is the hatred justified? I...
View full detailsSamantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarshi...
View full detailsAn immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th ...
View full detailsSince the opening up of India's economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astoni...
View full detailsOur lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking...
View full detailsSix thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and that number i...
View full detailsArthur Miller was not only one of America's most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cul...
View full detailsFrom the Common Swift, which can stay in the air continuously without landing for up to ten months at a time, to the tiny Goldcrest, Europe’s small...
View full detailsWith Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they n...
View full detailsTranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking th...
View full detailsThe trailblazing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words. Her most essential writings on gender equality and women's rights, rep...
View full detailsWhen Trump fired James Comey, he triggered the appointment of Robert Mueller as an independent special counsel and caused the FBI to open a formal ...
View full detailsThroughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the phys...
View full detailsPrior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, ostensibly in cooperation, although often in d...
View full detailsPerhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirt...
View full detailsScience fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the st...
View full detailsHave you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars, or why the Moon never leaves us? Thinking about the precise dancing...
View full detailsSo here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as...
View full detailsNo one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to s...
View full detailsWith its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless wo...
View full detailsTwo centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Ra...
View full detailsWhat should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today...
View full detailsNew York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic...
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