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A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Lights, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual...

The largest English-language collection to date from Israel's finest poet Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth...

The Position of Spoons: And Other IntimaciesAuthor: NAPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: Oct 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

As the pout-pout fish swims along in the ocean, he discovers that being glum and spreading the "dreary wearies" isn't much fun anymore--especially when his true destiny is revealed!Author: Deborah...

The Prodigal: A PoemAuthor: Derek WalcottPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: Mar 21, 2006Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374530165ISBN-13:...

Introducing Karen Solie, I would adapt what Joseph Brodsky said some thirty years ago of the great Les Murray: ' . . . He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives'. . . And, yes, as we...

Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of...

Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring...

A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.Author: Isaac SingerPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: October 01,...

In his brilliantly enjoyable and freewheeling new book, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic, and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter...

A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes...

In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga's transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry. Yoga's history in America...

A searching new collection from America?s philosopher-poet John Koethe, in his tenth volume of poetry, investigates the capricious nature of everyday life, ?the late-night jazz, great sex and all /...

By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to...

Hailed as ?an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can?t remember when? by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay?s The...

The vivid story of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Samuel Hynes's The Unsubstantial Air is a chronicle of war that is more than a military history; it...

Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a...

A back country orphan struggles to defy his uncle's prophesy that he will become a baptist prophet--NoveList.Author: Flannery O'ConnorPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: June 12,...

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era?including Charles Manson, the Black...

A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of...

The World'S Wife: PoemsAuthor: Carol Ann DuffyPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: Apr 09, 2001Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 057119995XISBN-13:...

Concise and engaging, Michael Bloom's book is for anyone who has ever uttered the phrase, But what I really want to do is direct.""--BOOK JACKET.Author: Michael BloomPublisher: Farrar, Straus and...

Author: Daniel KahnemanPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: April 02, 2013Number of Pages: 499 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374533555ISBN-13: 9780374533557

Author: Alice MillerPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: Oct 15, 1998Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374525439ISBN-13: 9780374525439

Thoughts In SolitudeAuthor: Thomas MertonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublication Date: November 29, 1999Number of Pages: 129 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston Globe When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its...

Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his...

Three Poems, Hannah Sullivan?s debut collection, which won the 2018 T. S. Eliot Prize, reinvents the long poem for a digital age. ?You, Very Young in New York? paints the portrait of a great American...

A biographical excavation of one of the world?s great, troubled cities A remarkable view of one of the world?s most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman?s Till We Have Built Jerusalem is a...

Author: Deborah CurtisPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxPublication Date: Mar 24, 2014Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0571224814ISBN-13: 9780571224814