An innovative and accessible guide to poetry writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor.
From the The New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.
“An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago Tribune
Return to the earth with beautiful photographs and inspirational text.
These indelible images are among the hundreds housed in the New York Public Library’s archive of photographs of LGBT history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies.
A quixotic journey through London's past, Mudlark plumbs the banks of the Thames to reveal the stories hidden behind the archaeological remnants of an ancient city.
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael Cunningham
A great historian's masterful account of the origins of air power in the RAF.
Yet again J. G. Ballard's inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence.
Hundreds of beautiful waterfalls and swimmingholes across New England
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.
A cookbook of treats to satisfy every sweet tooth.