The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy.
An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seducer hammering on the walls of his own loneliness.
Who could have been so cruel as to do away with poor Vivian Lambert? And why oh why couldn’t she just stay dead?
A wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).
The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called “my hero.”
The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times)
Ever since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when George sees a listing... Læs mere
Dorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
E. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.