
Earthly Signs
Translated by Jamey Gambrell A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsv...
View full detailsTranslated by Jamey Gambrell A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsv...
View full details“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edif...
View full detailstranslated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones A classic work of reportage about the Katyń Massacre during World War II by a soldier who narrowly escaped the at...
View full detailsCurzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to ...
View full detailsTegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most i...
View full detailsFrançoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative...
View full detailstranslated by Alex Andriesse Written over the course of four decades, François-René de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration ...
View full detailsThe elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from th...
View full detailsIn 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...
View full detailstranslated by Richard Lourie In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the m...
View full detailsIn 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fictio...
View full detailsLillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-f...
View full details“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it...
View full detailsMezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chi...
View full detailsYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly...
View full detailstranslated by Jean Stoner A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and...
View full detailstranslated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in ...
View full detailsElizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...
View full detailsPublished in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intel...
View full detailsFriedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed g...
View full detailstranslated by Peter Bush Josep Pla's masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, w...
View full detailsSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first ...
View full detailsA memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age, ...
View full detailstranslated by John Sturrock The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and th...
View full detailsCall it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledg...
View full detailsVirginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm “the prince” of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his “whim of iron” and “cleverness amounting to genius,” while Be...
View full detailsFrom Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who r...
View full detailsWhen The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novic...
View full detailstranslated by Tess Lewis A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collec...
View full detailsOut of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work--one that transforms our...
View full detailsGalen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, a...
View full detailsOver the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review h...
View full detailsJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command ...
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