Nicholson Baker - Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

In an exposT of contemporary library policies, the best-selling author of Vox describes how such institutions have dismantled collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books to ...

William Kennedy - Roscoe

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ironweed recreates the trials and tribulations of Albany life between world wars by following Roscoe, chief architect of Albany's notorious political machine, ...

Harryette Mullen - Sleeping With the Dictionary

Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

In this comprehensive collection of essays, Martin Amis tackles such diverse subjects as Elvis, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Warhol, the Guinness Book of Records, Abraham Lincoln, poker, chess, and ...

E.L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate: A Novel

Billy Bathgate is an urban Huck Finn who comes of age in New York City in the 1930s as the protege of Dutch Schultz, one of the most abominable gangsters of his time, but one of life's great teachers ...

Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

A new collection of short stories by the celebrated writer introduces a rich cast of characters--including a stroke victim who will help a young bride identify the problem at the core of her marriage, ...

Chris Hedges - War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza ...

Gary Giddins - Visions of Jazz: The First Century

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 ...

Winfried Georg Sebald - Austerlitz

< i > Austerlitz < /i > , the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by & #8220;one of the most gripping writers imaginable & #8221; ( < i > The New York Review of Books < /i > ), is the story of a ...

John Dower - War Without Mercy

Now in paperback, this monumental history has been hailed by the New York Times as " one of the most important books ever written about World War II in the Pacific " . 20 pages of illustrations.