The short story won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of ...
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and pri...
I don't believe in God, but I miss Him. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality...
In Watermelon Sugar is a surreal tale of a small community organized around a central gathering house which is named "iDEATH". In this environment, many things are made of...
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of "Americanah" and "Half of a Yellow Sun," based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same nam...
The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing thei...
Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale.
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Book DescriptionLong considered the definitive English translation of Rilke"s brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin"s edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to O...
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to pass...
From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen...
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days la...
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
Long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best ...
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century
Frances is a cool-headed and darkly obse...
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged ...
“Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped t...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-l...
In her essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they k...
