From a writer hailed as "a younger, more libidinal Susan Sontag,"* a dazzling, revealing, and fiercely funny dissection of our love of scandal and what it says about usWe all relish a good scandal
For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny" (Anthony Burgess), turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story to re-create the world that made him who h
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, cultureLinguistics has long shied awa
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: womenIn 2007, the International Rescue Commi
An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our timeThere is no more inflammatory topi
“Special, strange, and peculiarly potent... Extraordinary.” —Variety One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entere
A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it representsConcrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands se
A “visionary”* approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—one state for two peoples—that is more urgent than everIt is by now a commonplace that the only way to end th
An enchanting novel of listening and telling, of the silence between Holocaust survivors and their children, and the power of stories to mend broken bonds When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the c
A vivid history of America’s biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation’s punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down s
From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today’s Africa From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war a
The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change meansWal-Mart, the world’s largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the w
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians,"* the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern ageThe Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the en
From an award-winning lawyer-reporter, a radically new explanation for America’s failing justice systemThe stories of grave injustice are all too familiar: the lawyer who sleeps through a trial
"From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw
A surprising and enlightening investigation of how modern society is making nature sacred once againFor more than two centuries, Western cultures, as theybecame ever more industrialized, increa
Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics formSince its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of t
A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world’s most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural homeScientists worldwide are warni
The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essays In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson war
