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Special Orders

by Edward Hirsch

In Special Orders, the renowned poet Edward Hirsch brings us a new series of tightly crafted poems, work that demonstrates a thrilling expansion of his tone and subject matter. It is with a mixture of grief...

The Richer, the Poorer

by Dorothy West

On the heels of the bestseller success of her  novel The Wedding, Dorothy West,  the last surviving member of the Harlem  Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that  explore both the...

Game Over

by David Sheff

Page from a Cold Island

by Frederick Exley

Illiterate America

by Jonathan Kozol

Brazil on the Move

by John Dos Passos

Wet Work

by Christopher Buckley

Foreign Land

by Jonathan Raban

From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again.

For the past thirty years, George...

The Voysey Inheritance

by David Mamet

One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barker's classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this brilliant adaptation.

For generations,...

Hug Dancing

by Shelby Hearon

Owning Jolene

by Shelby Hearon

Long Time Leaving

by Roy Jr Blount

"I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I'm pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations,...

The White House Mess

by Christopher Buckley

An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self-serving...

Collected Poems, 1954-2004

by Irving Feldman

Irving Feldman is a master chronicler of our collective experience and an overlooked treasure of American poetry. Feldman's rich body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational,...

Newtwit

by Tom Connor

Fame & Folly

by Cynthia Ozick

Looking for My Country

by Robert Macneil

Renowned journalist and author of the international bestseller Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil reflects on a life lived between nations, and why he finally decided to call himself an American.

Growing up in Halifax...

Little Money Street

by Fernanda Eberstadt & John Updike

In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France - a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she...

The Sibyl

by Par Lagerkvist

Theology for the Third Millennium

by Hans Kung