Has Kurt Vonnegut’s time come and gone? By the mid-1970s, after the successes of Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut was a major literary figure. No author of American fiction in that decade had more star power. While his... Read More

All will come away from this New York City volume with newfound love for the beguiling, legendary, volatile town. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, is a multidisciplinary ode... Read More

New York City breathes through the gritty pages of this contemporary crime novel. In Marvin Koyo’s contemporary crime novel "The New York Sour", a family is forced to confront its demons. This New York sequel focuses on the wide Bracho... Read More

This book does much to elevate Albert Kotin into his rightful place alongside the other greats of abstract expressionism. Marika Herskovic has gifted the art world with a well-researched monograph on Albert Kotin, a Russian-born American... Read More

This fun and fascinating travel guide to NYC spans the familiar—from unfamiliar perspectives—to the unique and obscure. Some of the iconic landmarks of New York City—the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the 9/11... Read More

Artist and illustrator James Gulliver Hancock’s affection for New York City is evident in every line he’s put to paper in composing All the Buildings* in New York *That I’ve Drawn So Far. The transplant from Sydney, Australia,... Read More

Paul David Pope’s "The Deeds of My Fathers" could well be subtitled, “How the Pope Family Built Civilization in New York City, saved Italy from Communism, and Made the Mob Sound Respectable.” In this biography, which reads like a... Read More