A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is ba...

A tender and compellling memoir of the author's grandparents, their literary salon, and a way of life that is no more.The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who a...