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

 An exercise in urban archeology, an original interpretive account of the golden age of the New York luxury apartment house.

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

What constitutes "home"?

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

Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while...

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

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

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

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