Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Vividly and lovingly recreates a city kid's summer in the Catskills in the 1950s.

A dramatic and colorful portrait of one of New York’s most remarkable governors, Hugh L. Carey, with emphasis on his leadership during the fiscal crisis of 1975.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.

Collection of quotations and judicial opinions of federal appellate judge Richard A. Posner

With an ear for life’s fractured melodies, marine biologist Stephen Spotte recounts his lifelong study of literature and the sea and his search for the mythical place where reason and revelation intersect.

Lively anecdotes retold by an advance man for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

A wildly entertaining historical adventure, deep inside the crucible in which America was forged.

New, superbly translated omnibus of five of Jules Verne's most renown stories.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.

A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.

Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.

The first full-length biography of Timothy D. "Big Tim" Sullivan, who dominated New York City politics in the three decades prior to World War I.

A powerful account of the hazards, challenges, and dangers faced by America's first-responders.

The classic autobiography of the famous Indigenous writer and critic Gerald Vizenor

How one man and his family made their dream of owning a winery come true--and helped revitalize New York's winemaking industry in the process.

Memoir and meditation on blindness.

A tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War.

An epic adventure based on the extraordinary historical story of Sir William Johnson and the author's dreams of a Mohawk "woman of power" who lived three centuries ago.

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.

Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson’s life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson’s part in creating a nation he did not live to see.

A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.