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Considered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, this is Stein’s most famous work. This…

How do you feel when a book, movie, or work of art you love is indelibly stained by the disturbing behavior and…

This unsettling collection gathers around a central concept. In many Indigenous cultures, whistling at night is a big…

In 1981 a largely forgotten massacre took place in the Salvadorian village of El Mozote. The Salvadorian Army's…

An anthology full of essays, blog posts, and manifestos, Disability Visibility shines a light on the nearly 20% of the…

Hope Jahren describes her journey from curious kid in Minnesota to being one of most respected scientist of our time.…

Published for the first time in 1996, this book chronicles the incredible story of Jane, the Chicago-based abortion…

Acclaimed editor Otto Penzler presents a smorgasbord of zombie literature, beginning with the writer who started it…

Intended for practical use in daily practice, this classic book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama breaks down the basic…

Do you have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts? You might be hooked into a dangerous trap. Many…

As the 70s reached their conclusion, a physics professor from Haverford College began a quest to do something that to…

In this classic and groundbreaking work of philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir outlines the historical and philosophical…

While reeling from one of the most creative—but at times self-destructive—outpourings of his life, Tao Lin…

A pulitzer-prize winning critic from the New York Times offers this passionate, incisive, and bracing cultural anaylsis…

Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social…

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his…

Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes also wrote invaluable and beautiful prose. This collection of 14 short stories…

The biography of heavyweight US boxing champ Jack Johnson, a Black sports celebrity who came out of poverty in the Jim…

“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The…

At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences…

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as…

Writers, assassins, kinky sex, cults, and an alternative analysis of Chekov's assertion: 'If you introduce a gun in…

15-year-old Japanese teenager dubs himself "Kafka" and runs away from home to search for a missing mother and…

In "Hard-Boiled Wonderland," an average Japanese working man descends into the Tokyo sewers to put his mind to work as a…

Murakami's memoir is as good as his novels, maybe even better. Running and writing are his joint passions, and it's a…

Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a…

Nobel Prize Winner Toniy Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye tells the story of a young African-American woman, Pecola, who…

In this collection of essays, Eastern philosopher and counterculture icon Alan Watts deals with our relationship to the…

Eastern philosopher and cultural revolutionary, Alan Watts explores the root of our anxieties and insecurities in this…