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,...

Edited by Greil Marcus Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an...