Biography & Memoir
Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Hardback
A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America “stayed white”—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
Paperback
A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork.
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
Paperback
A biography of one of America’s most popular and misunderstood authors, John Steinbeck.
In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust
Paperback
The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran.
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Paperback
Michael Gorra, one of America’s most preeminent literary critics, asks how we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.