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...