Author Abigail Thomas shares the story of how she started a new life after an accident left her husband brain damaged and institutionalized.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish ...

These selections from the many writings of Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues.

From Styron’s Southern upbringing, which deeply influenced the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and National Book Award–winning Sophie’s Choice, to his feud with Norman Mailer and the clinical depression that led ...

This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and ...

... Thomas Sowell , Race and Culture : A World View ( New York : Basic Books , 1995 ) , 81–186 ; Shelby Steele , Content ... in author's possession ( hereafter cited as TP , AP ) ; Judis R. Andrews , Sr. , questionnaire to the author ...

"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and ...

David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.

A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived" -- Daily Telegraph (London) Rare personal reflections from “one of our most talented writers” (The New York Times Book Review), Booker Prize winner ...