Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins’s Encyclopedia of the
Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes ...
Now a major motion picture The Front Runner starring Hugh JackmanAn NPR Best Book of the
YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart—a dashing, reform-minded Democrat—seemed a lock for the party’s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double ...
The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in
one volume, this book traces a rich, 8000-year story of human prehistory. Beginning with the first known inhabitants, Paleo-Indian hunters who lived approximately 7000 B.C., ...
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement,
based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one ...
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGEFiguring explores the complexities of
love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, ...
National BestsellerBeautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an
eye-opener. Daily NewsFrom Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes ...
Elle Best Books of 2017Kirkus Best Books of 2017The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her
most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about ...
Winner of The Believer Book Award for NonfictionMeghan O'Gieblyn's deep and searching essays are written
with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting collection. Lorrie MooreA fresh, acute, and even profound ...