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Magical Mess:
Reflections on Objects and Memories

Barry Yourgrau

Writer-performer Barry Yourgrau is a clutterbug—perhaps even a hoarder. In his hilarious and poignant memoir Mess: One Man’s Struggle to…

It Chooses You

Miranda July

In procrastination mode while finishing the screenplay for her second film, Miranda July obsessively read the Pennysaver. Who was the…

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

Borrowing the ambitious structure of a self-help guide, Hamid, a radically inventive storyteller and author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, tells…

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

From the celebrated author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a stunning historical novel—his first—set in Buenos Aires at…

A Long Way Gone:
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmeal Beah

At age twelve, Beah (now twenty-five), fled attacking rebels in his native Sierra Leone and was picked up by the…

Debating Race

Michael Eric Dyson

Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African American community or exposing the failings of the government response to Hurricane…

School of Prince

Tisa Bryant, Lynnée Denise, Ernest Hardy and Greg Tate

Writers, musicians, and cultural critics gather to pay tribute and explore the forty-year career of Prince. Drawing on original work,…

Between the Sheets:
Sex, Literature, and the Future of Erotic Fiction

Walter Mosley, John Rechy

In a society in which sex is both a major obsession and a major taboo, what is the function of…

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

Solnit, an activist and cultural historian, draws on emblematic moments of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire and place in brilliant…

Power, Faith and Fantasy:
America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present

Michael Oren

Oren, recently visiting professor at Harvard and Yale and author of the best-selling Six Days of War – covers 230…