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When It Was Grand

By LeeAnna Keith

A group biography of the activists who defended human rights and defined the Republican...

Uncanny Valley

By Anna Wiener

"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for...

Extreme Economies

By Richard Davies

A renowned journalist and one-time economics editor of The Economist presents an...

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Unmaking the Presidency

By Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes

The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American...

The Making of Poetry

By Adam Nicolson, Tom Hammick

Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing—Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never...

Unborn

By Bankei

In 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family's home because of his...

Awards

Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year

A Primer for Forgetting

By Lewis Hyde

“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers...

National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee

At the Foundling Hospital

By Robert Pinsky

“Since the death of Robert Lowell in 1977, no single figure has dominated American poetry...

New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year

A View of the Empire at Sunset

By Caryl Phillips

Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys,...

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John Banville a.k.a. Benjamin Black Interview

Author John Banville a.k.a. Benjamin Black discusses the differences between his two personas and his books Christine Falls and The Silver Swan.

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Adam Foulds

Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet. He is the author of The Quickening...

Susan Hennessey

Susan Hennessey is the executive editor and editor in chief of Lawfare. A senior...

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for...

Tours & Events

Serious Noticing

January 23, 2020

Meet New Yorker staff writer and Harvard Professor James Wood as he discusses his career-spanning collection of essays on literary criticism, Serious Noticing.

Meet award-winning author, naturalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams (The Hour of Land, When Women Were Birds) as she discusses her latest collection of urgent reflections on the state of American deserts and environmentalism, Erosion: Essays of Undoing.