Literary

The fourth and final installment in author Karl Ove Knausgaard's seasonally-themed autobiography, Summer splices…

A pack of hobo vampires, a girl with drug-induced ESP and ties to the Donnor Party,  a search for a lost foster sister…

A new edition of the classic essay on the power of idleness, with an introduction by humorist Bradley Trevor Grieve.…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

Expounding upon the characters and world by Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades dives into the poker world, following a…

George Orwell's dystopian sci fi classic 1984 was banned in Cuba for years...until a new translation suddenly appeared…

After getting a mysterious letter about his beloved’s death, a fisherman sets out to retrieve her soul from the Isle…

In this moving, tender, and heart-breaking memoir, Jennifer Finney Boylan tells the story of her life through seven dogs…

In late-1980s rural Ohio, bright but mostly friendless Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of high school with the…

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its…

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor provides general advice for reading nonfiction as a whole and genre specific…

From author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a book that is equal parts entertaining and informative…

This is the story of Kurt Vonnegut and his acclaimed work, Slaughterhouse Five. Two years after enlisting in the army…

Age 39 and lonely in an unfulfilling marriage, literary academic Chris Kraus channels her frustration and creative…

Feast your eyes on these adaptations of eight poetic stories about the sea. This collection features work originally…

From the spark of the Civil Rights movement, into the thick of it, Troy Maxson is forced to deal with the crushing…

In this collection of photographs and comical poems, author Danny Caine and photographer Tara Wray explore the culture…

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short…

NPR's Best Book of the Year: A mixed-race punk rock musician is confronted with the the real dangers of being Black in…

In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf began a self-guided writing practice that helped clarify her life as never before. which…

Henry David Thoreau is known for being the eminent American essayist for all things nature. In Canoeing in the…

This surreal, spooky graphic novel tells the story of Myriam, a mild lady with macular degeneration in her right eye.…

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from…

She was born with her stomach twisted in a knot, like her mother and her mother before her. Cassie navigates childhood,…

Since 1994, our observant wanderer, Bill Brown has combed the American landscape finding meaning in rust, neon signs,…

On the morning of his 30th birthday, Joseph is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. The Trial follows his struggle…

During the grey days of winter, or those darker days in your life, the best remedy is often just curling up with a good…

Ray Bancroft, an Alaskan fisherman, has raised his 11 year old granddaughter since birth, and to him, family is…

One of the most notable singer/songwriters in history has selected what he believes to be his most important and…

Howard Zinn changed the way that history is written: his classic A People's History of the United States, published in…