Sarah Crichton Books

By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex?all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the...

A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one...

We love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie,...

A masterpiece. ?The Washington Post "It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days." Mao Zedong?s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet...

She was like a storm. ?Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe...

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, ?We lived. We ate.? Roy Blount Jr. is one of America?s most cherished comic writers. He?s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and...

The true story of the war on cancer from one of its generals Cancer touches everybody's life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the...

A New York Times Bestseller Putting it together, bit by bit: an insider?s look at the anatomy of the Broadway musical For almost thirty years, Jack Viertel has been a major figure in the Broadway...

We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, grown, and new learning; a time when...

Witches of America is a memoir of Alex Mar? immersive five-year trip into the occult, as both a journalist and someone searching for her own faith. She explores modern Paganism?rom its roots in 1950s...