Dreaming by the Book: Housewife Superstar!: Advice (and Much More) from a Nonagenarian Domestic Goddess The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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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...

Zibaldone: Fin & Lady: A Novel The Anatomy Lesson:
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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...

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them My Poets: The Perpetual Orgy:
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National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee

The Possessed

By Elif Batuman

One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY...

National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee

My Poets

By Maureen N. McLane

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry’s uniquely...

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Perpetual Orgy

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

The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces...

"Don't Kiss Me," by Lindsay Hunter
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"Don't Kiss Me," by Lindsay Hunter

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Patrick Tyler worked for twelve years at The Washington Post before joining The New York Times in 1990 where he served as chief correspondent....

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair is the author of many books, including Downriver, Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, and Hackney, That Rose- Red Empire....

Sam Byers

Sam Byers is a graduate of the master’s program in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His fiction has been published in Granta and...

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Event Calendar The Antidote January 21 - July 3, 2013

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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Event Calendar Odds Against Tomorrow April 4 - June 11, 2013

Meet Nathaniel Rich as he reads from his new novel Odds Against Tomorrow.

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