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In this modern-day abecedarium, Jamaica Kincaid shares her deep knowledge of plant history and nomenclature while writing about the intersections of the plant world with history, race, mythology,...

A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a...

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified,...

A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity. The story of Christopher Isherwood? life is one of pilgrimage: away from the...

A Pulitzer Prize winner?s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. ?The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.? Americans have been leaving their...

?An astounding debut.? ?Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman?s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone A woman lives an ordinary life in...

The seventh book of poems from Devin Johnston, a poet who can "change the way you breathe" (Maureen N. McLane). Dragons is a collection of sonorous, sensual poems from Devin Johnston, ?one of the...

?Cole?s splendid ear orchestrates awakenings.? ?Forrest Gander, author of Twice Alive Peter Cole?s luminous new book is in many ways his freest and most moving to date. In Draw Me After, Cole evolves...

New and selected sonnets from Henri Cole, a poet with ?a quality of daring that is rare in our poetry? (Louise Glück). I take joy in considering my generation. I rewrite to be read, though I feel...

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer?s crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is...

The essential poetry of C. K. Williams, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. C. K. Williams (1936?2015), one of the most treasured American poets of the past century, was also...

A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love. A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the...

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power?and the movement to stop them. The mob that stormed the Capitol on...

Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story. In 2015, the Irish government commissioned an...

A new history of Nat Turner's rebellion and its aftermath--Author: Anthony E. KayePublisher: Farrar, Straus & GirouxPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple...

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will...

Ian Frazier?s magnum opus: a love song to New York City?s most heterogeneous and alive borough. For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the...

Looks at the disappearance and murder of Lucie Blackman in Tokyo, following every step of the investigation and offering a grim portrait of her suspected killer. Original.Author: Richard Lloyd...

A first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies, her wishes, as she writes about-or tries to write about- Shakespeare's sonnets--Author: Rosalind...

A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an...

An arresting study of memory, perception, and the beauty and finitude of the human condition from Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips--Author: Carl PhillipsPublisher: Farrar, Straus &...

The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano...

A bristling, beautiful new collection from ?the Dark Prince of American Poetry? (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike...

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly, from a reality-warping storyteller--Author: Laura van den BergPublisher: Farrar, Straus & GirouxPublication Date: Jul 09,...

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and...

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today? culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women? sports,...

Since his death in 1961 at the age of thirty-six, Frantz Fanon has loomed ever larger. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the...

A book of mischief and improvisation that answers dogma and fundamentalism with rage, delight, Jesus, music, earth-worship, and wombats--Author: Amy LeachPublisher: Farrar, Straus & GirouxPublication...

The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep...