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An incisive history of New York's seminal music scenes, encompassing the ways in which the city's indigenous art, literature, theater, and political movements converged to create such unique sounds, as... more info...

Mitch Epstein's latest project takes on one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what & who powers America? From 2003-2008, prompted by the evacuation of an environmentally compromised Ohio... more info...

Sleuthful towards appearances, photographer Richard Gordon is drawn to the collateral meanings of things as they are. In this case, the unnoticed uniquity of visual surveillance within contemporary urban... more info...

"Across the specific differences among Goicolea's (photo)works, the artist tirelessly excavates human weakness, awkwardness, and discomfort. Toward the end, he returns again and again to his themes of... more info...

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze,... more info...

A writer's vivid take on his 'life of little means', trying to practice his craft or simply staying afloat above the din of, for instance, family memories, i.e., the fight with the father that generates... more info...

Gathered together in one volume for the very first time are some of the most hilarious, winning and profound picture stories and games one could wish for, by 33 of the world's most beloved authors and... more info...

The "Demon Dog" of American crime fiction has a new novel and it's a zinger: a massive tale of corruption, retribution, and three men at the vortex of history during the summer of 1968. BLOOD'S A ROVER... more info...

As contemporary Americans we consider ourselves to be informed about oil. It is something we 'need' and are willing to pay dearly for. But how much do we really know about the impact this fuel has on the... more info...

Phenomenally stunning, this graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa features images by renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi and text by prominent Nigerian journalists, human rights... more info...

For many years, Jason Epstein served as the editorial director of Random House. Here, he takes readers on a culinary tour thorugh his eventful life, beginning with his childhood summers in Maine, where... more info...

This publication lays out a detailed road map culled from Ed Begley, Jr.'s thirty-nine years of green living. For the first time ever, he provides a comprehensive plan, from effective conservation techniques... more info...

Los Angeles in the 1950s: from its fabulous mansions to its sizzling nightclubs, it is a sprawling center of corruption and dangerous passions. Now a horrific murder invades the bleak cityscape. Caught... more info...

This book is not only the most comprehensive survey of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans's career to date, but also the most thorough chronology of his artistic development. As a European child of the 1950s,... more info...

This volume is the first to document one of the Belgian-born artist's wall paintings, completed for an exhibition at Kabinett fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany, which Tuymans documented with Polaroids... more info...

The book is an invitation to look beyond the paintings by the prominent Belgium contemporary artist Luc Tuymans. While he is and remains a painter first and foremost, a lot goes on in the margins of his... more info...

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. Unable to sleep, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to come to terms about things... more info...

The author's first collection of nonfiction includes two previously unpublished pieces, ranges through such topics as the power of gay fiction, coming out in the 1970s in Virginia, low-budget filmmaking... more info...

This slim but densely sly volume collects twenty years of R. Sikoryak's classic lit/classic comics mashups. Blondie and Dagwood act out Genesis in "Blonde Eve"; Garfield tempts Jon into a deal with the... more info...

It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful... more info...

In this one-of-a-kind American road trip, (M*A*S*H)actor Mike Farrell departs Los Angeles with a rental car - a Prius he quickly nicknamed "Mule" - as his only companion. Here, he provides a funny account... more info...

A National Book Critics' Circle award finalist. Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her small town of Crosby, Maine, & the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize... more info...

With this luscious two-volume set, Martin Parr's affinity for focused accumulation is presented with appropriate thoroughness, and with typical Parrianhumor. Some of the items in the first volume, Objects,... more info...

When successful author Richard Morris finds a notebook of his younger self, filled with visions of the future he now lives and splayed against the back-drop of 1970s New York, it seems that he has lived... more info...

Here, in convincing fashion, Judith Jones demonstrates that cooking for yourself presents unparalleled possibilities for both pleasure and experimentation: you can utilize whatever ingredients appeal,... more info...

Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporyary... more info...

With these seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen Cohen questions many conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall of communism, and the effect of Russia's policies at home... more info...

The first ever comprehensive short story collection of Blechman, one of the most prolific and influential visual artists of the 20th century. This oeuvre of his graphic stories is, at once, jocular, wry,... more info...

An emotionally charged story that lays bare the destructive impact of the Vietnam War on the wives, lovers, and children of veterans. Beverly Gologorsky's haunting story of love, devotion, and loss will... more info...

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. A compelling, provocative - even daring - collection of ten new superb stories. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable... more info...

An unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two publishing world and 'field of comics' luminaries, Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. This treasury for young... more info...

Two people who thought they had found perfect happiness are pushed apart by tragedy in this dramatic new novel by award-winning author Anne Michaels. Jean and Avery were content in their houseboat on the... more info...

The sequel to the smash-hit, award-winning collection of 2007. Thirty-one tales that pack the wallop of a unique and unified artistic vision brimming with pop surrealism and outright violent mayhem. The... more info...

Long before manga took the American comics market by storm, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Making Comics) combined the best ideas from manga, alternative comics, and superheroes into Zot! -a frenetic... more info...