NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"The authors have included exceptional pieces from every period in Sartre's life, giving readers a precise understanding of a talented writer and philosopher."
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) need no longer be feared as the intensely deep analytic writer of all things existential. His essays show his brilliant ability to explain the unexplainable.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"An intriguingly different take on today's culture."
Film critic and essayist Orange (
The Sicily Papers, 2006) situates this collection of new and previously published pieces around her thoughts on leaving "the Next Generation," which she "had unwittingly been a part of for two decades."
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"A master class on the pleasures of the English language well-wrought--a useful complement to his guide on writing literary nonfiction, To Show and to Tell, which will publish simultaneously."
Esteemed essayist and poet Lopate (
At the End of the Day: Selected Poems and an Introductory Essay, 2010, etc.) offers "a motley collection of essays, personal and critical," loosely tied together around the theme of "the discovery of limitations, and learning to live with them."
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 2013
"Upbeat words of wisdom about aging with dignity and spunk."
Acclaimed author and feisty nonagenarian Hotchner's (
Paul and Me: Fifty-three Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman, 2010, etc.) witty ruminations about the art of living well into old age.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"Stimulating and provocative."
A collection of essays by the Polish philosopher Kolakowski (1927–2009), viewed by some as one of the intellectual progenitors of Poland's Solidarity movement.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"Hours of taped and edited interviews do not add up to a satisfying book."
A collection of sympathetic interviews with members of the Peoples Temple and others who were connected with the mass suicide/murders of more than 900 people at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 29, 2013
"A well-pulled-together collection from Richards (Opting In, 2008, etc.) and Greenberg."
The proceedings of a symposium of human rights activists, political analysts, legal experts and artists who came together in 2011 to commemorate Anita Hill's courageous testimony at Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearing 20 years earlier.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 29, 2013
"A fun, enlightening read for writers and book lovers alike."
A rich, informative essay collection based on interviews with 20 prominent authors seeking to answer the question: "Why do writers write?"
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 28, 2013
"Editor Ratcliffe's (On Sympathy, 2009) generous annotations and judicious edits give scope to a rich, brilliant, happy, oblivious life."
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"Uneven and mostly bland."
An assortment of essays, reviews, and excerpts from British travel writer and biographer Wheeler (
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, 2012, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"A mixed bag with some very good lines (if often spoken by others) jumbled up with some rather stale ephemera."
Assorted opinions on literary and cultural matters by critic and novelist O'Hagan (
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, 2007, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 22, 2013
"A smorgasbord of ideas, best when judiciously sampled."
From a broad array of thinkers come answers to the question: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"
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