Women Share Their Midlife Challenges and TriumphsEdited by Miriam LiebermannIn this ground-breaking anthology, Miriam Liebermann has collected the contemporary wisdom of rebbetzins, therapists, mentors, and friends who have made it...

Jo Ann Beard The single new writer to appear in The New Yorker magazine's 1996 fiction issue spins thirteen poignant, wry autobiographical tales about youthful romantic awakenings and adult betrayals...

PJ O'Rourke New York Times bestselling author P.J. O'Rourke has toured the fighting in Bosnia, visited the West Bank disguised as P.J. of Arabia, lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of...

Raymond Aron In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and...

Richard Russo "I've written a lot about destiny in my fiction," admits Richard Russo, "not because I understand it, but because I'd like to." In the first of these eleven...

Aldous Huxley "A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete...

Jonathan Wittenberg In a series of lyrical essays organized around the Jewish calendar, the author engages with moral and theological questions, such as the relationship between God and the Holocaust,...

James Baldwin A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful...

Loolwa Khazzoom Many of us have stereotypes of what “Jewish” looks like—and for many of us that image is white and European. Yet, with the blossoming Jewish multiculturalism movement, led...

Deborah Frances-WhiteIn 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap,...

George Steiner What is "the idea of Europe"? George Steiner names a few essential characteristics. Europe is café culture; Europe is a landscape travelled on foot. Europe is the ever-present...

Isaac AsimovAs the pace of scientific and technological progress speeds ahead, it becomes increasingly difficult for man to comprehend the world around him.But here, in this superb collection of seventeen...