The first sentence of Silliman’s forty-years-in-the-making opus, “If the function of writing is to ‘express the world,’” is unfinished to a strict grammarian. But... Read More

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of five novels, including the award-winning The Fast Road and The Bird is Gone. With hallucinogenic lyricism and a nonlinear narrative, his... Read More

During the six years that Theodore Roosevelt served as civil service commissioner (1889?1895), civil service reform was the most divisive issue of its time, says the author, who... Read More

Each year in late September, the Cherokee tribe gathers to honor Selu, the Corn Mother, who, according to tribe traditions, gave up her life so that her sons, and subsequently... Read More

This book will have Twain scholars and fans vigorously discussing its merits for years to come. The author takes as his subject the relationship between Mark Twain and his older... Read More

After fighting in heavy combat in Peleliu and Okinawa during WWII, Fifth Division Marine Sledge was transferred to China to serve out the rest of his duty. In this book, the... Read More

Arthur Alexander may not be a household name, but it should be. Like many early African-American pioneers of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s he influenced virtually all of... Read More

What kept millions of Eastern European Jews from emigrating in the late 1930s, even in 1940 or 1941, while there was still a chance to save their lives? A Thousand Kisses: A... Read More