Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

$27.00 - $33.00

Gary Giddins' idiosyncratic series of essays on key figures in 20th-century jazz doesn't pretend to be an all-inclusive guide to the key players in the first century of the music's history; his introduction makes plain that, aside from obvious inclusions like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, he r... Read more

$18.00 - $21.00

Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery and upbringing in the Victorian-era South, where she became a journalist and pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, in an account that also describes her determination to counter lynching ac... Read more

$8.00 - $14.00

The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And Denise is stuck in a destructive affair with someone very unsuitab... Read more

$11.00 - $11.00

The eminent American poet John Ashbery translates this collection, written by his late friend (and former roommate) Pierre Martory. Ashbery notes in the introduction that Martory was loath to show his work to anyone while he was alive, thus leaving it to Ashbery to rescue this talented poet from utt... Read more

$15.00 - $16.00

A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and ess... Read more

$16.00 - $24.00

In this collection of 19 essays, Rebecca Solnit writes about calendars of nature photography, the tie between walking and physics, natural history museums, and more--most of them focusing on the issue that concerns her most: the politics of environmentalism ... Read more

$12.00 - $28.00

In this intriguing new addition to biographical work on Emily Dickinson, Brenda Wineapple explores Dickinson's fierce friendship with the radical abolitionist and women's suffrage activist Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgins. After reading his political speeches, Dickinson wrote to Higgins to seek his ... Read more

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This collection of 13 essays (10 of which were published previously in literary journals) focuses on how poems have a mind of their own unbeknownst to the poet. Subject matter includes the work of Shelley, Bishop, and Charles Wright. ... Read more

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In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

$18.00 - $23.00

It is difficult to believe that this unflinching, candid, and occasionally shocking biography of Nobel-Prize novelist V.S. Naipaul is indeed an authorized one, since it reveals Naipaul's willingness to cast aside friends, lovers, and wives; his brutal sadomasochistic sexual desires--at times beating... Read more

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A Bosnian immigrant living in the U.S. and his photographer girlfriend travel to the Balkans in a literary attempt to revive the life of an early-20th-century Jew named Lazarus Averbuch, who moved to Chicago, became suspected of being an anarchist, and was shot by the police. The parallel stories of... Read more

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A daughter of a two-decades bishop of New York chronicles their turbulent relationship, his journey from robber-baron wealth to work among America's post-war urban poor, and his contributions as a civil rights and peace activist. ... Read more

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Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, Sa... Read more

$4.64 - $10.20

A New York Times special correspondent presents a full-length memoir based on her acclaimed "African Odyssey" cover story for The Wall Street Journal, in a personal account that traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her ... Read more

$10.00 - $36.00

Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle's wife, and their four daughters.... Read more

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In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with s... Read more

$8.90 - $9.40

Mary Jo Bang's fifth book of poetry features the same carefully off-kilter free verse and obsessions with the nature of art that preoccupied her previous collections, but in ELEGY, these techniques are no longer the central concern, and have been put into use to memorialize the life of Bang's dead s... Read more

$7.00 - $15.00

Acclaimed Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat chronicles the courageous life and tragic end of her uncle, Joseph Dantica (the "t" was added as a result of an immigration error) who raised her until she was 12 before she emigrated to New York to be with her family. Firmly committed to his hom... Read more

$9.00 - $20.00

This anecdotal study explores the marks readers leave behind in books as they read. Sometimes readers mourn what's not present in the margin: Fermat's last theorem is famously missing because he allegedly found the margins too small; sometimes they deplore what is: De Quincey admonished Wordsworth f... Read more

$20.00 - $42.00