This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait
Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.The first work of Sholom Aleichem’
"Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire."Written on hotel stationary while in Europe on the run from American creditors, soon afte
"The native American Voltaire, the enemy of all puritans, the heretic in the Sunday school, the one-man demolition crew of the genteel tradition." -Alistair Cooke on H.L. MenckenFiercely intelligent,
A shocking phone call in the first sentence sparks a tour-de-force saga about two brothers, years apart in age, who have become close late in life. The freakish death of one at the book's outset send
"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master i
"Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling."—Jane Mayer, author of New York Times bestseller Dark Money"Hettena skillfully weaves m
The man Paul Auster called "A master of bewitchments" and a founder of the fiction collective returns to the novel after 20 yearsIn the spirit of "transcendent buffoonery" Curtis White's miraculous re
In THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS, maverick philosopher Slavoj Zizek returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.In these troubled
A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bord
One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists
The most current and authoritative look at Donald Trump's background and rise to power.A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has covered Donald Trump's rise to power for 30 years, mostly
