American Rust
Two boys set off to escape their dying hometown, but a tragic gravity exerts its pull.
Barnes & Noble Reads
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
A life spent “between the house and the chicken yard” nurtured a writer whose short fiction plumbed the depths of…
The Vagrants
An uncompromising, haunting vision of life in China in the late 1970s.
Pamela Newkirk: Letters from Black America
A new book unveils two centuries of illuminating correspondence.
Picturing Langston Hughes
Three new illustrated volumes for children bring an exuberant visuality to the verse of an American master.
A. Lincoln: A Biography
The obsessive, paradoxical genius of the most revered American president.
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
The correspondence between two great poets yields a portrait of a friendship and a treasure trove of language.
Baked: A New Frontier in Baking
Baked: A New Frontier in Baking by the owners of Brooklyn’s eponymous caf‚ Baked, Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, is,…
Azar Nafisi: Things I’ve Been Silent About
The critic and memoirist on the teaching power of fiction — and the need for a bailout of the imagination.
Nothing to Fear: FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America
Revisiting the magnitude of the crisis FDR faced can be both inspiring and overwhelming.
The Magician’s Book
The surprisingly capacious world inside an Oxford don?s imaginary wardrobe.
The World Is What It Is
The peripatetic life and controversial career of a Nobel laureate.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A novel in which an unquiet mind finds an unlikely form of therapy.
Billy Collins: Ballistics
An in-depth talk with the former Poet Laureate, author of the newly published Ballistics.
The Sun and the Moon
A newspaper editor’s most famous triumph was a masterpiece of nonsense.
To Siberia
Siblings yearn to escape their hometown’s grip in this spare tale.
2666
In this posthumously published epic, the author of The Savage Detectives builds a fictional universe out of the enigma of…
Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda: Orwell’s Essays
Two new volumes of essays showcase the dauntless power of a mind set against illusions.