Essays & Correspondence

What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with peop...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE “CHE: PART ONE” FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevar...

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published Here In Its Entirety, Frida Kahlo's Amazing Illustrated Journal Documents The Last Ten Years Of Her Turbulent Life. This Passionate, Often Surpri...

The best of The Minimalists. This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their...

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedi...

A compelling compilation of previously unpublished war letters, encompassing every major conflict from the Civil War to Desert Storm, offers vivid accounts ...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer—now known as Prisoner FF8282—was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maxim...

A Collection Of Sharp, Poignant Essays That Expertly Blends The Personal And Political In An Exploration Of American Culture Through The Lens Of Our Obsessi...

Of All The Charming Misfits On Television, There's No Doubt Raj From The Big Bang Theory--the Sincere Yet Incurably Geeky Indian-american Astrophysicist--ra...

An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect desc...

Curry Is A Dish That Doesn't Quite Exist, But, As This Hilarious And Sharp Essay Points Out, A Dish That Doesn't Properly Exist Can Have Infinite, Equally A...

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer...

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As She Recovers From A Breakup With A Lover Who Had Meant Everything To Her, Trisha Low Grapples With The Meaning Of Everything, In Memoir Rich With Theory ...

Vanished tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy—the mysterious abduction of their son.In the late 1930s, in the shad...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chap...

Johann Sebastian Bach Holds A Singular Position In The History Of Music. A Uniquely Gifted Musician, He Combined Outstanding Performing Virtuosity With Supr...

The Rights And Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered -- The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed -- The Same Subject Continued -- Observations...

'country Crock' First Published, In Different Form, In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, And Revolution In Trump's America (macmillan Publishing Group, 201...

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review). B...

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces ...

In an age when the Dalai Lama's image has been used to sell computers, rock stars have used tantra to enhance their image, and for many, Nirvana calls to ...

A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through...

In 1965, Ginsberg Travels To Cuba, Where Ignoring All Advice, He Behaves In His Usual Wonderfully Provocative Way And Is Deported Under Armed Guard To, Of A...

Seinfeld. For more than 33 million viewers, the Emmy Award-winning television show has become a Thursday night ritual. Even though the show has ended, J...

a 16th-century Mystic, St. John Of The Cross Was Also A Carmelite Monk Who Helped Reform The Order. In This Book, He Addresses Pride, Avarice, Envy, And O...

Minecraft redstone: le guide officielCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

The award-winning PostSecret project's most profound and stunning postcards to date For the past three years Frank Warren has invited people of all back...

« Limonov n'est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine ; idole de l'underground soviétique sous Brejnev ; clo...

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, yo...

Tout quitter du jour au lendemain pour aller chercher, seule, au fin fond de la Chine communiste, les secrets oubliés de l'art antique chinois, était-ce b...

A Collection Of Fifty-five Important Pieces Of Short Fiction Of The Twentieth Century Features Masterworks By Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cath...

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters...

In This Illuminating And Deeply Moving Memoir, A Former American Military Intelligence Officer Goes Beyond Traditional Cold War Espionage Tales To Tell The ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for Jam...

The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: Science & MathEssays & Commentary

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any tim...

For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unu...

Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. Her quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers' he...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Wri...

A Collection Of Letters Between Martha Gellhorn And Her Family, Friends, Lovers, Politicians And Cultural Figures During The 1930's Usa, Spanish Civil War, ...

This new paperback edition contains Book One and Book Two of this series, revealing the hidden side of D Day which has fascinated readers around the world. ...

Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a d...

Palimpsest Press and Molly Peacock are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM, available for presale in Canada and t...