Peter Matthiessen An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once...

Louis Simpson The author discusses his life and career as a poet, examines the work of Whitman, Wordsworth, William Carlos Williams, Conrad, and V.S. Naipaul, and explores aspects of writing...

Alan Shapiro The New York Times Book Review praised Alan Shapiro's The Last Happy Occasion as a "touching and intelligent, emotionally satisfying and elegant testimony to the power of poetry...

Jeff Kaye ALMOST EIGHTY YEARS AFTER Samuel Jacobs died in Glasgow, only two of his original seventeen grandchildren remained, and his life story was at dire risk of being lost...

Sidney Poitier In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career.  His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic...

Max Brod Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man...

Noah Gordon A determined and gifted young physician, R. J. Cole abandons a career with a prestigious hospital to build a private practice in a small Berkshire town, becoming deeply...

Natalia Ginzburg A prize-winning classic of Italian literaure offers an autobiographical, deeply imaginative, and literary exploration of the nature of family, evoked by growing up in Italy during the rise...

Zelig Pliskin Practical guide that is intended to enable the reader to increase his level of happiness, peace of mind, and self-esteem, and decrease negative emotions such as sadness, anger,...

Ruth Druart A family's love is tested when heroes-turned-criminals are forced to make the hardest decisions of their lives in this unforgettably moving story of love, resistance, and the lasting...

Laurel Tharcher Ulrich PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and...

Weina Dai Randel From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel based on the true story of a diplomat and his wife who risked...