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"Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more--a uniquely personal miscellany of wit, weirdness, and waspish provocation."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post"Campbell wrote abo... Read More about NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement

"An engrossing account of a young man discovering what he wants to do with his life."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "This deftly written memoir . . . is the story of a writer finding his own voice."―The Wall Street Journal "Just Go Down to the Road brings an exciting time in world and literary ... Read More about Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel

An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and f... Read More about Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin

"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver—possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece." —Phoebe Lou Adams, The AtlanticAn NYRB Classics OriginalPatrick Leigh... Read More about The Violins of Saint-Jacques (NYRB Classics)

The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the hit documentary series now on the Discovery+—James Campbell’s inimitable insider account of a family’s nomadic life in the unshaped Arctic wilderness “is an icily gripping, intimate profile that stands up well beside Krakauer’s classic [Into the Wild], and i... Read More about The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness

A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildings can be much more than the dusty, dark wooden shelves found in mystery stories or the catacombs of stacks in the basements of academia. From the great ... Read More about The Library: A World History