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Dreaming by the Book

By Elaine Scarry

A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination....

Housewife Superstar!

By Danielle Wood

The life, advice, and many marriages of a ninety-something Tasmanian domestic...

The Unwinding

By George Packer

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political...

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Zibaldone

By Giacomo Leopardi; Edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D'Intino; Translated from the Italian by Kathleen Baldwin, Richard Dixon, David Gibbons, Ann Goldstein, Gerard Slowey, Martin Thom, Pamela Williams

A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of...

Fin & Lady

By Cathleen Schine

From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story...

The Anatomy Lesson

By Philip Roth

The writer Nathan Zukerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction--pure...

Reinventing Bach: Double Shadow: Poems A Fish in the Water: A Memoir
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National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee

Reinventing Bach

By Paul Elie

The story of a revolution in music and technology, told through a century...

National Book Awards Finalist

Double Shadow

By Carl Phillips

A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak Low Comparing...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

A Fish in the Water

By Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane

Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one...

"Don't Kiss Me," by Lindsay Hunter
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LISA ZEIDNER has published four novels, including the critically acclaimed Layover, and two books of poems. Her stories, reviews, and essays have appeared in...

Héctor Tobar

Héctor Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist....

Kevin Dutton

Dr. Kevin Dutton is a research psychologist at the Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Science, Magdalen College, University of Oxford....

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Meet Oliver Burkeman as he reads from his new book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.

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Meet science journalist Emily Anthes as she reads from her new book Frankenstein's Cat.

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