In these biting satirical essays, David Rakoff goes after the scarily easy to find examples in our culture of wretched excess, obsessive lusting after material goods, and insane expenditures of money like couture clothing and thousand...

This is a book about intellectuals written for the lay person. Its purpose is to unravel the world of intellectuals in order to understand an important social phenomenon how the thinkers of our society mold that society, leaving an im...

In a new collection of essays, the award-winning author of The March and Ragtime offers a series of reflections on the nature of imagination and creativity, looking at diverse forms of creative endeavor--from the literary and scientif...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends wit...

In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this ...

In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this ...

The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill, whose style Newsweek says 'owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness,' offers a reporter's immersion in outsider cultures.