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Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has...

New York Times–bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman presents a unique Audio Companion for Chuck Klosterman X, in which he contextualizes and reads from the collection of his best articles and essays, providing both a fascinating tour of the past decade and an ideal...

Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life’s most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual...

A New York Times Bestseller "Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." —Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a sensible...

From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at...

Former Secretary of State, and first generation American, Colin Powell explains the importance of remaining an open and welcoming nation for NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the...

Five Women. A Crumbling City. A Daring Flight to Freedom. August 2021. The fall of Kabul. Twenty years after they were defeated, the Taliban storms Afghanistan's capital, claiming every piece of land they pass and plunging the city into chaos. For Anjali and four other women, who were all from...

“What is our obligation to each other?” asks Jennifer Eli Bowen in this propulsive exploration of community, solitude, and love. Drawing on her experiences as a mother, daughter, and founder of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, the country’s largest and most enduring prison-based literary organization, she examines the wild spectrum of shapes that care can take. She investigates the role of community across the world and in her own neighborhood, driven by a curiosity to uncover what might be gleaned from various vanishments in her own life.

Manchmal braucht es nur einen Satz–und das Leben nimmt eine Wendung. Das kann ein einfacher Satz sein, ein Alltagssatz. Einer, der politisch ist, Mut macht oder verletzt. Amonte Schröder-Jürss hat 24 Lebenssätze aus den Erinnerungen prominenter und nicht-prominenter Menschen zusammengetragen. Die Geschichten, die sich dahinter verbergen, sind schön und traurig, stimmen mal hoffnungsvoll, mal wütend. Und: Sie alle sind einzigartig.

'A wonderful take on the chaos of the modern word' Louise O'Neill 'Carl has the rare gift of combining analytical clarity with maniacal vulnerability' Blindboy Boatclub 'Sharp, inventive and irresistibly engaging' Sophie White In At Least It Looks Good From Space, journalist Carl Kinsella...

Worauf ständig warten? Worauf immer hoffen? Ein kleiner Schnitt am Finger, schon wenige Stunden später hängt das Leben des Erzählers an einem durchsichtigen Schlauch. Er besiegt die Sepsis, aber die existenzielle Bedrohung bringt eine neue Frage in sein Leben: Wenn sich von einer Sekunde auf die andere alles verändern kann – wieso nehmen wir so selbstverständlich hin, dass wir unser Leben ständig auf später vertagen? Als er aus dem Krankenhaus entlassen wird, wird er zum Sammler. Der Dinge des Lebens.

Harper Lee (1926-2016), Verfasserin des berühmten Romans Wer die Nachtigall stört, ist eine der größten und wichtigsten amerikanischen Autorinnen, dennoch ist über ihre schriftstellerischen Anfänge bisher nur wenig bekannt. In The Land of Sweet Forever (Originaltitel) werden nun acht bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht, die aus den frühen Jahren ihrer Schriftstellerkarriere stammen und nach Lees Tod in ihrer New Yorker Wohnung gefunden wurden.

Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, and Kirkus Reviews One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 "Smart, somber . . . There’s pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle with her own dynamic subjectivity." - The New York Times Book...

A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series...

With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published The World, the Text, and the Critic in 1983...

“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection.” The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of...

“The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection...

“The best science and nature writing—which these stories represent—reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it,” writes Susan Orlean in her introduction. This year’s collection masterfully guides us through exotic locations...

'An oracle' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Articulate[s] a universal, feminine wisdom with such ferocity it feels like she's slapping the reader around the face' OBSERVER 'Equal parts self-lacerating, tender and witty' GLAMOUR 'Furious, sharp, funny, honest' iPAPER On the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List...

Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the...