Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of Americas last great men of letters.

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

From his birth in World War I Algiers, to his untimely death in a car crash in 1960, Albert Camus represented the conscience of his generation.

" --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem.

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 ...

Meet the man who has won three Edgar Allen Poe Awards, the title of Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master, fellowship in the Royal Society of Literature, and Malice Domestic's Lifetime Achievement Award-and add to your reading pleasure ...

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 ...

Despite the cruel course of the illness, Adam’s growing weakness evokes in him a remarkable spiritual strength. This is the story of one last summer, lived as honestly and faithfully as possible.

... 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 ...