The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.
A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more
Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.
Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more
Summer in New York: our two protagonists catch one another's fancy while they wait to be selected as jurors. Another novella by the author of Call Me By Your Name and many others.
A re-issue of this excellent biography in which Solnit explores how the British photographer's images of high-speed movement captured in late C19th California were created on the cusp of the... read more
When this adventurous seeker after the authentic and delicious loaded her saddle bags and toottled off to France to research One More Croissant for the Road, the nation was confident she wou... read more
Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more
A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.
A Canadian architect falls from grace after accepting a dubious commission. Glamorous and propulsive, this won multiple French prizes and was longlisted for the Goncourt.
A handsome illustrated volume that looks at the relations Frick and his daughter had with European dealers and also with their decorators (such as Elsie de Wolfe).
Edward Sherrif Curtis (1868-1952) spent decades photographing North America's indigenous peoples and their vanishing culture. Large format and tremendous.
Amid the seedy, damp squalor of life on the Tennessee river, a man lives on a disintegrating houseboat. Around him others wander the underbelly of Knoxville like shadowed demons in a halluci... read more
A sweep of Becker's finest images from the 1970s to the 2010s: Ed Ruscha, Arthur Miller, Jackie Onassis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, Andre Leon Talley, Francois Truffaut, Gore Vidal, Dia... read more
During his terms as PM, Churchill spent a surprising amount of time with Roosevelt and then Eisenhower. This is a careful study of his influence on US foreign policy.
Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more
From WW2, when her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as a 'secret weapon', to her later support of Bill Clinton, Harriman was an extraordinarily powerful force in political and soc... read more
Interviews and newly available documents make this a substantial biography of the Hollywood actor who became an inscrutable President, fixed in his belief that the world could be divided int... read more
The veteran journalist lifts the curtain on Biden's behind-the-scenes diplomacy with Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East amidst the fevered politics of the approaching presidential election.
Candela designed some of the most archetypal Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue apartment blocks. This lavish large format book contains many photos, monochrome and colour, of exteriors and interi... read more
The many houses of the hugely successful American industrialist and art collector, presented with photographs, drawings, letters, designer's notes... Very handsome.
The autodidact cultural critic has written an exhilarating and evocative memoir of his youth, the unstable fortunes of his family, and the diverse artistic tribes of NY before the catastroph... read more
Another huge novel from the author of City On Fire. A teenage girl and her father navigate relationships, addiction and other threats to serenity in New York.
In October 1960, James Baldwin diagnosed the trouble with American society as 'a failure of the masculine sensibility.' This is a study of the relationship of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCu... read more
A spin on Huckleberry Finn, this harrowing (and characteristically witty) account of his adventures is narrated by James, a runaway slave. It's a scary reflection on racism today.
Matar's photographs at sites of lethal police violence in the US and her fastidious research make for a quietly devastating critique. The formality of her images and the directness of her g... read more
A many-layered memoir from the Pulitzer-winning author of The Sympathizer: the American dream, the Vietnam War, the life of the refugee, adoption, violence, identity.
Joseph Seligman arrived in the US with $100 sewn into the lining of his clothes; the Lehman brothers followed; then Marcus Goldman and the 'forty-eighters' fleeing European anti-semitism. A ... read more
1990s' Chicago: two students fall in love. Twenty years on, theirs is a suburban life of detoxes and home improvements. A warm and sardonic novel by the author of The Nix.