All Books
- 'The Politicians & the Egalitarians' posits conflict as central to democracy
What historian Sean Wilentz gets really passionate about in this collection of essays is the defense of politicians and the political process.
- Bestselling books the week of 5/19/16, according to IndieBound* What's getting readers hooked at independent bookstores across America?
- 'The Twilight Children' makes a compelling coda to a remarkable career
Released shortly after the sudden passing of creator Darwyn Cooke, 'The Twilight Children' pays fitting tribute to an exceptional talent.
- Celebrate National Short Story Month with five of the best
- 'Pit Bull' aims to tell the story of a maligned breed
Journalist Bronwen Dickey has written a powerful and disturbing book suggesting that fear of pit bulls reflects many broader American anxieties and pathologies surrounding race, class, and poverty.
- 'Everybody's Fool' revisits Sully Sullivan and his crumbling hometown
Pulitzer Prize winner Russo’s return to his fictional upstate New York mill town also marks a welcome return to the hard-bitten, hard-drinking, hardscrabble comedy of his first novels.
- 'Peter Arno' celebrates the iconic, one-of-a-kind New Yorker cartoonist
In Michael Maslin’s dazzling, well-illustrated biography, Arno’s story is told with skill and flair.
- 'American Rhapsody' is a dazzling slice of American cultural history
From Edith Wharton to Nina Simone, New Yorker writer Claudia Roth Pierpont brings 20th-century America alive.
- 'Valiant Ambition' offers a more nuanced history of Benedict Arnold
Nathaniel Philbrick shows that while a major gulf of character did separate Arnold and Washington, the former was more sympathetic and the latter more flawed than the popular mythology suggests.
- 'A Self-Made Man' follows Abraham Lincoln from youth to political hustler
Blumenthal's new biography of Lincoln – the first of a multi-volume project – is engaging, informative, meandering.
- Bestselling books the week of 5/12/16, according to IndieBound* What's flying fastest off the shelves at independent bookstores across America?