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Written by Italian scholar Raffaello Piccoli, As An Italian Sees It is a bracing, outsider’s meditation on the American character at the dawn of the modern age. With luminous prose and a philosopher’s rigor, Piccoli traces the nation’s Puritan roots and Cavalier countercurrent, the rise of...

A bracing, clear-eyed tour of America through British eyes, As An Englishman Sees It weighs the promise and perils of a nation in the wake of war and on the cusp of modernity. Henry L. Stuart begins with a striking scene in Paris and expands it into a provocative thesis: the United States and...

When Erin Vincent was fourteen years old, both of her parents were killed in a traffic accident. Almost forty years later, the number fourteen began haunting Erin, appearing everywhere—in the books she was reading, in films, TV shows, and on the news. The repetition felt significant, so Erin began to explore the number beyond her personal understanding. The result is Fourteen Ways of Looking, a memoir of magisterial fractals and a profound meditation on grief, memory, and the creative process.

A Maori myth, as Boreham tells it, holds that for a hundred moons there was no war between the people of the Bay of Islands and the neighbouring tribes of Tippahee. Time and again the armed warriors took up their positions and waited for the fighting to start. And time and again, in the night...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: Celebrate Annie Ernaux with this stunning collection of interviews, critical analyses, and twenty-four previously unpublished writings offering insight into her life, writing style, thoughts, and influence. Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, the...

This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping...