James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more
than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black, The Autobiography of ...
This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and
how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next.Richard E. Smalley, University Professor, Rice University, and 1996 Nobel laureateWith world oil production about ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems
suffused with spiritual longinglyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects ...
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who
still has hopes for himselfeven while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by ...
A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Speak LowComparing any human life
to a restless choir of impulses variously in conflict and at peace with one another, Carl Phillips, in his eleventh book, examines the double shadow ...
A woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an
object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to ...
The Israel Lobby, by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M.
Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review ...
The best American poet writing today* The title itselfa parody of a threat, something the
monster under the bed might gruntmanages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary . ...