The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Cooper's 1846 novel about the Anti-Rent Wars in upstate New York, now available in a scholarly edition.

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.

Explores the remarkable range of artists who have worked in Woodstock, New York for over a century.

Prose poems that chronicle the eschatological age in which we live.

Renowned poets and scholars address the question of how poetry sounds and signifies in different contexts.

The facts and legends of New York's famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.

Poems that step up to our world's disasters, level with its possibilities, and interrogate faith, justice, militarism, madness, and the joy of intimate relationships.

The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.

Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.

A granddaughter's intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.

An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations.

A moving tale of contemporary Haiti told through the intersecting lives of four young people struggling to hold on to hope and their identities amid a militarized coup in the early 1990s.

Aims to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening.

Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Examines the Yiddish-Hebrew writer I. L. Peretz's alignment with the Jewish working-class in Eastern Europe and his devotion to progressive politics.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

A detailed, historic guide to the rich physical history of New York City, from its founding by Dutch settlers to the turn of the twentieth century.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.