New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2001. Fifth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Joan Didion The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Eleventh Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. Ronni Solbert (illustrations). 50th Anniversary Edition. 5th Printing. Paperback. 50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2013. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Helen Epstein New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2010. Robert Chandler (ed.), Elizabeth Chandler (tr.) Robert Chandler (tr.), and Olga Mukovnikova (tr.). Paperback. The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of..... More
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