This glorious tapestry of a novel returns to Taylor's accustomed stomping ground - the university campus - with whisper-close third-person narration and minute observation worthy of his reve... read more
The much-anticipated new novel from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. Three ex-cons and one teenager attempt to make their way from Kansas to San Francisco. A paean to the American West o... read more
In a silty blend of ecology and economics, ALT takes the matsutake mushroom – the most valuable mushroom in the world, comfortable in ravaged landscapes - as a metaphor for the intricate n... read more
A furniture salesman, who tries to keep to the straight and narrow with only the occasional foray into fencing a pilfered gewgaw for a cousin, finds himself drawn into a much bigger heist. A... read more
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
A portrait of the utopia created by Eugene O'Neill, de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius and many others.
Edie's older sister attempts to understand how her younger sibling progressed from an isolated, privileged Californian childhood to become Warhol's muse.
The veteran journalist reviews the current US presidency, in all its baffling volatility, basing himself on several exclusive interviews and a wealth of documentary evidence.
The story of the first contact between the Haida and other indigenous peoples of the Pacific North West with Europeans - and what came after. Told very powerfully in a graphic form that comb... read more