A nonagenarian philosopher reflects on the role of Socrates in her life

'An engrossing tale well told.'--Mary Beth Norton, author of Liberty's Daughters and The Devil's ...

In Adventures in Political Finance,Alex Pollock illuminates the workings of our financial system ...

The Trivium Companion is an accompaniment to Sister Miriam Joseph's The Trivium: The Liberal Arts...

'This tale sparkles.'―Blair Tindall, author of Mozart in the Jungle

The herculean struggle to restore stability in Puerto Rico and a grave warning for America

'Clear-eyed and deeply human, In the Basement at the VA shows that medicine is as much about comm...

What makes a movie 'great'? Which films would you describe that way? Historian Bruce Kuklick's ac...

'Livewell's lyrics, frequently set in his home city of Philadelphia, remind us that good poems ar...

The tiny, fictional island of Outermark sits thirty miles off the coast in the waters between Mai...

'This Darkness Will Never End, the first short story collection by the Hungarian-born author Edit...

Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)

'In Satan Talks to His Therapist, Melissa Balmain explores the lighter side of dark times. Playfu...

Through the mentoring of an old man, a boy develops strength and courage during an elk hunting tr...

'[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry's most cherished stories, Y...

'Drawing on the remarkable events of her own life, ... author and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck ...

'The poet A. M. Juster has a bit of fun with the name of an aquatic animal children tend to adore...

Surprised Again!--The Covid Crisis and the New Market Bubble

'Frank 'Ace' Renzetti has been installing carpet for forty years, working the upscale neighborhoo...

'Originally published at Ludzie bezdomni in 1900'--Title page verso.

'In Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet, Adrienne Su contemplates her own use of food as a recurring metaphor...

I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions

'Dralyuk's translation is characteristically masterful.'--University Bookman

'Passport to Paris is one of the great neglected memoirs of the 20th-century arts. The cosmopolit...

'Set in an impoverished Greece at the cruel time of the German occupation during WWII, When the T...

Philosopher Eva Brann wonders what concrete good we get from the claim of equality set forth in t...

'Avail shows us a world in which American popular culture mixes and meshes with European high cul...

A century after the Supreme Court's infamous 'separate but equal' decision, ancestors of Plessy a...

Wilder goes fishing with his mentor, Gale, and his 'secret' girlfriend, Sunny. In the Colorado wi...

'A granular, meditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life.'--Booklist'Put this beauti...

To Turn the Soul collects fourteen essays (three by Eva Brann) inspired by the life and thought o...

'The title of Geoffrey Brock's third poetry collection, After, is meant to work in two ways. A nu...

'There is an air of earnestness and sincerity about [Domin's] poems--they don't perform linguisti...

International Best Seller -- Now in English for the First Time. In this thought-provoking and ext...

First published in 1959, this novel follows 12-year-old February Callendar and her older brother,...

'Ear Training gathers thirty essays and reviews by one of America's most playful critics. Known f...

Named a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice Reviews

'Dana Gioia, one of America's leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it...

A charming new edition of a much-loved book about books

'Captivating.'--Christian Science Monitor

'At the heart of every essay in Elisabeth Sharp McKetta's lively and luminous collection is a que...

In The Beijing Lectures: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche, Laurence Lampert presents what he calls the n...

Arden thinks the world has ended when her parents decide to trade their large house (where she ha...

While bow hunting on his grandpa's land Wilder meets a trespasser with an assault rifle and a bad...

As the sole child during his stay on his grandfather's ranch, Wilder faces the trials of old-fash...

Wilder Good is back on his grandfather's ranch, and he has his very own colt to break.

'In Just go down to the road, James Campbell, a native Glaswegian, recounts his years as an incip...

'As a physician and renowned medical researcher, Carl Nathan has been at the forefront of discove...