Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron and more.
Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Reborn ends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.
A passionate investigation of the ways Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed America's definition of celebrity, identity, and style. Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late first lady’s hold on Americans by examining the myths and metaphors that we've attached to her.
