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Now in paperback: a quietly stunning tour de force about the redemptive power of love.While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous-a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace-it's also one of the most darkly mysterious books she's ever written.It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her g...

A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the bestselling Invitation to an InquestWalter and Miriam Schneir's 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, famously executed in 1953 for passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Invitation the Schneirs presented exhaustive and damning evidence that...

International intrigue, murderous politics, and psychological suspense combine in a stylish literary thriller An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare - because he's got a way with words - finds himself jolted on a sidewalk in Manhattan: Is that who I think it is, he wonders, or am I crazy? Who he thinks it is, is one of the world's premier terrorists. Someone who murdered his partner. Someone he blames for the fog of despair that's ...

A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for a Count, Ivan accidentally causes the death of a monk, which leads to his being ostracized by the local peasantry . . . until the dead monk returns a...

Americans weren't supposed to drink during Prohibition-but that's exactly when "cocktail culture" came roaring to life. The Bloody Mary, sleek cocktail shakers, craft mixology, and hundreds of other essentials of modern drinking owe their origins to the Dry Years. In Contraband Cocktails, Paul Dickson leads us on a fascinating tour of those years-from the "Man in the Green Hat" making secret deliveries to Capitol Hill, to The Great Gatsby's Da...

One of Australia's most celebrated novels: one woman's journey from Australia to LondonNora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London, she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life.At home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown i...

Schiffrin evokes the bittersweet tang of émigré life in New York." -The New York Times Book Review André Schiffrin was born the son of one of France's most esteemed publishers, in a world peopled by some of the day's leading writers and intellectuals, such as André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. But this world was torn apart when the Nazis marched into Paris on young André's fifth birthday.Beginning with the family's dra...

A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on-from Aristotle, Plato, and Chuang Tzu to the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad, from Voltaire, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer to Kant, Freud, and even modern neuroscientists-Lenoir conside...

Has the world's hottest pop star been kidnapped, joined a secret sect, or simply gone into hiding? The answer lies in the abandoned subway stations of Chicago . . . One minute insanely famous pop singer Molly Metropolis is on her way to a major performance in Chicago, and the next, she's gone. A journalist who's been covering Molly joins the singer's personal assistant in an increasingly desperate search to find her, guided by a journal left b...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin"I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin's brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything-Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer'...

One of our most brilliant social critics-and the author of the bestselling The Middle Mind-presents a scathing critique of the "delusions" of science alongside a rousing defense of the role of art and philosophy in our cultureThe so-called new atheists, most famously Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made a splash in the new millen­nium. They told the evangelical and the liberal believer that they must give up religion and submit to sc...

Why do some men become convinced-despite what doctors tell them-that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date-and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly "run amok"?In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures investigates these and other "culture-bound" syndromes, tracing each seemingly baffling phenomenon to its source. ...

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An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a giant of twentieth century literature-the only collection of interviews with Marquez available Hailed by the New York Times as a "conjurer of literary magic, " Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known to millions of readers worldwide as the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Beloved by readers of nearly all ages, he is surely the most popular literary novelist in tr...

A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock 'n' roll-as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years-including his final interview-Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with his interviewers (he was famous for walking out on them) and sharing profound observations on the human experience, especially as he reflects on p...

The great thing is to lead a normal life, and not be the slave of your passions. What do you get if not?"One of Russian literature's most renowned love stories-a vivid and sensitive account of adolescent love, wherein the sixteen year old protagonist falls in love with a beautiful but older woman living next door, thereby plunging into a whirlwind of changing emotions that are heightened by her capriciousness, and leading to a truly heart-rend...

...perhaps I was not living as I ought.Renowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Life-the tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself confronted by the morally and mentally deadening effects of provincialism. The 1896 tale is partly a commentar...

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL FROM THE WRITER EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL (STATION ELEVEN) CALLS "SHARP, WITTY, AND IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING" Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene's life hasn't quite turned out as planned. She's a single mom living with her daughter and her gay friend, Ahmad. Her PhD on Dante's Vita Nuova hasn't gotten her a job, and her career as a translator hasn't exactly taken off either.But then she gets a call from ...

For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck (which is to say, almost everyone!) comes an indispensible collection of wit and wisdom from the late, great Nora Ephron A hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most beloved screenwriters. From the beginning of her career as a young journalist to her final interview-a warm, wise, heartbreaking reflection originally published in the Believer-this is a sparkling ...

By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has assembled an extensive guide featuring 75 patches--icons that represent CIA projects--to reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon.