From the Bible to Socrates, through the transcendent achievements of Shakespeare and Dante, down through the ages to Hemingway, Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison, Bloom discusses the numerous influences of his chosen geniuses and the kinships among them over the centuries.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today's radically new world and America's complex place in it.

“A gorgeous, plangent work: a cri de coeur for the cranes’ protection and a testament to Matthiessen’s enduring high caliber as writer and world traveler . . . [Matthiessen] conveys that feeling through serendipitous prose as elegant as the stately birds that inspire him.” —The New York Times Book Review

Five short stories about young women in Southeast Asia. “Freudenberger is…inventive and piquant when she probes characters' relationships to their adopted homelands—which, she shows, are often more passionate and grounded than their ties to the people in their lives.” —Publishers Weekly

A portrait of the Mitford sisters follows Jessica, a communist; Debo, the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, a best-selling novelist; Diana, who was the most hated woman in England; and Unity, who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler.

Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories from the National Book Award winning author of Ship Fever travel the territories of loss and unexpected discovery.

From the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, twenty-eight short stories reflect the American psyche of the mid-twentieth century and feature such characters as a gigolo-like psychopath, a lonely spinster, and an estranged postal worker.

Thirty-eight outrageous, deliciously provocative pieces from Vogue's indomitable food critic.