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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has …

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye by Will Gompertz

"We all know what Modern Art looks like. We've seen Monet's water lilies, we've admired Picasso's nudes, and we've gawked …

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters …

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

A Quaker Book of Wisdom by Robert Lawrence Smith

The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post

The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about …

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …

Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

The complete Lockpick pornography by Joey Comeau

Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith

After many a summer dies the swan by Aldous Huxley

A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity—these …

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …

Something New under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb (The Tawny Man, #1)

Robin Hobb has emerged as one of today's foremost fantasy authors. Now she continues the adventures of one of her …