Joy Harjo
“Compressed . . . lyrical . . . unflinching . . . raw. . . . Harjo is a magician and a master of the English language.”—Jonah Raskin, San Francisco ChronicleMore
Gertrude Stein, Adam Gopnik
Matched only by Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Paris France is a "fresh and sagacious" (The New Yorker) classic of prewar France and its unforgettable literary eminences.More
Alysia Abbott
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.More
Isadora Duncan, Joan Acocella
Revised and Updated
A remarkable account of a wildly artistic life, finally restored to its unexpurgated form, with a revealing new introduction by Joan Acocella.More
Scott C. Johnson
What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good?More
Helga Weiss, Francine Prose, Neil Bermel
The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.More
Elizabeth Scarboro
A fresh, beautiful story of young love and its greatest challenge.More
Simon Armitage
Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.More
J. G. Ballard, China Miéville
A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature.More
Nick Flynn
A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form.More
Ferenc Máté
“We seem to have forgotten what life is all about…”More
Joshua Cody
“The memoir of the year . . . a book in which the sentences swing into you like small, gleaming axes.”—New York TimesMore
Edward O. Wilson, Alex Harris
From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before.More
Will Oldham, Alan Licht
A captivating and revelatory glimpse into the life of one of the most critically acclaimed and enigmatic musicians working today.More
Philip Schultz
“A success story . . . proof that one can rise above the disease and defy its so-called limitations on the brain.”—Daily BeastMore