Names on the Land
By George R. Stewart
Introduction by Matt Weiland
Organized thematically (sample chapters: "Yankee Flavor," "America Discovers Columbus," and "How Names Were Symbols of Empire") this lighthearted book will be a delight for anyone who ever wondered how their hometown, or (more likely) the next town over, could be called that.
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The Summer Book
By Tove Jansson
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
By Norman Mailer
Introduction by Frank Rich
1968 was one of the most tumultuous in American politics and society, the effects of which reverberate today. Norman Mailer was on the ground, covering Nixon's relentlessly stage-managed nomination in Miami as well as the Democratic convention in Chicago—where the violence at the heart of the American dream exploded on the streets.
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Afloat
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée
Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Justice at War
The Men and Ideas that Shaped America's War on Terror
By David Cole
David Cole takes a critical look at John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and David Addington, the men who made the decisions that shaped America's war on terror. Cole argues that America can prevail against the threat of terror not by dismantling the checks and balances that guarantee the fairness of our justice system, but by restoring them.
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Inverted World
By Christopher Priest
Afterword by John Clute
The City is pulled along on tracks, forever at risk of slipping back in space and time, and threatened on all sides by hostile tribes. Christopher Priest's classic of hard science fiction is as mind-bending as it was when it was first published thirty years ago.
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The Supreme Court Phalanx
The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc
By Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin analyzes the partisan decisions of the current Supreme
Court and argues that Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas have
created a conservative alliance bent on rewriting constitutional law,
leaving past decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action,
and campaign financing vulnerable to reversal.
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The Family Mashber
By Der Nister
Introduction by David Malouf
Translated by Leonard Wolf
The story of three brothers—a businessman, a mystic, and a savant—that is a brilliantly innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling. "The restitution of this Yiddish masterwork—as life-saturated as the other great Russian novels—is an augmentation of world literature." —Cynthia Ozick
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The Consequences to Come
American Power After Bush
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
This collection of essays from The New York Review of Books looks back at the legacy of Bush, Cheney, and Rove, and ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will face America during the next administration. Contributors include Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Jonathan Freedland, Peter Galbraith, Joseph Lelyveld, Jonathan Raban, Frank Rich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, and Michael Tomasky.
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The Post-Office Girl
By Stefan Zweig
Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg
Zweig's posthumously discovered novel, about the rise and fall of a provincial Austrian girl invited to the Swiss Alps by her wealthy American aunt, is available in English for the first time.
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Uncle Cleans Up
By J. P. Martin
Illustrations by Quentin Blake
Uncle and his friends defend the labyrinthine regions of castle Homeward from the Badfort baddies. "A classic of British nonsense.... And a most elegant nonsense it is, utterly silly and deeply sophisticated at the same time." —Newsday
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Foxie
Written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Based on the Chekhov short story "Kashtanka," this beautiful and touching picture book about a little singing dog is "one of the best of the excellent books by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire." —The New York Times
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