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A provocative exploration of the Bard of Avon's famous and beloved collection of poetry.Shakespeare's sonnets are the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet, they are often...
The #1 New York Times bestseller that "unearths the hidden gems in our North American backyard. Don't even think about . . . sightseeing without it" (New York Daily News).Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me if You Can in this riveting true crime memoir that tells the astonishing firsthand story of Anna Delvey—the fake heiress who conned New York’s elite—and...
Some ideas are forbidden not because they are false—but because they threaten the foundations of power. In an age of expanding government, managed narratives, and pressure to conform to an evolving moral orthodoxy, the principles that once defined a free society are...
Essays from the Stoic philosopher instructing how to find happiness in a world full of adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature....
Some ideas are forbidden not because they are false—but because they threaten the foundations of power. In an age of expanding government, managed narratives, and pressure to conform to an evolving moral orthodoxy, the principles that once defined a free society are...
The classic introductory Latin textbook, first published in 1956, and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.Revised and expanded, this sixth edition of classics professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it...
Eve Babitz—Hollywood’s funny, whip-smart It Girl—muses on everything from fashion and tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage in this collection of nearly 50 previously uncollected pieces.With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that...
A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor...
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural worldA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth...