Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is one of the most important thinkers of the modern era. His insights into the human condition are possibly the most profound to come from the...

Caitlin Moran   "It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few...

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...

David Sedaris   David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding....

Paul TherouxA compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped...

Elaine M Kauvar"[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory...

Edited by Ruth Andrew Ellison A hilarious and provocative collection of original essays by some of today’s top Jewish women writers—including Aimee Bender, Daphne Merkin, and Rebecca Walker—exploring all the...

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,...

Amos Oz "Perhaps most of the essays in this book are substitutes for stories that I have not managed to write," says Amos Oz in the preface to Under This...

John Berger John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between...

Salman Rusdie “Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and...

Jenny Diski Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like...