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Decca: The Letters of Jessica... by Peter Y. Sussman

Jessica “Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: Born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she...

New York, New York, How... by elizabeth b hawes

 An exercise in urban archeology, an original interpretive account of the golden age of the New York luxury apartment house.
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Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America... by Brad Gooch

From the author of City Poet, the brilliant biography of Frank O’Hara, now comes a fascinating account of thriving forms...
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Foreigners by Caryl Phillips

A hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...
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Cambridge by Caryl Phillips

Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while...
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The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips

At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the...
The Story of a Widow

The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

After the death of her husband Akbar Ahmad, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life.
A Country Called Home

A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes

From the author of the acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize): a luminous novel of youthful...
"How Perfect Is That"

"How Perfect Is That" by Sarah Bird

'How Perfect Is That': Sarah Bird is perfectly hysterical in this poke at Texas high society 12:00 AM CDT on Sunday,...