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Two Lives
Gertrude and Alice
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary...
The Corpse Washer
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation’s horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family...
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A Bingewatcher's Notebook
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were—and that’s a good...
The Dregs of the Day
A riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty Dust The final published work by the renowned Máirtín Ó Cadhain, this...
Nobility of Spirit
A Forgotten Ideal
An impassioned call to restore the conditions of freedom and human dignity, ideals our civilization seems to have lost In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion...
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama “The definitive edition.”—Boston Globe Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night is regarded as his...
The Origin of the World
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Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner,
The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)
Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization With wonder, wit, and flair—and in...
Voices of the Lost
A Novel
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel weaves together a series of devastating confessions about life in contemporary Arab society This profound and disturbing novel by acclaimed...