Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and Other Plays
The setting is Sicily, the island where the gods once spent their holidays. The principals are a newlywed couple in their forties, who hope to meld the children...
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Vintage Books was founded in 1954. Its publishing list spans influential works of world literature to cutting edge contemporary fiction and distinguished non-fiction. It is today’s foremost trade paperback publisher. Read more
The Spectacle of Skill
Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion—and himself. The Spectacle of...
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The Clothing of Books
How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the...
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Gender Outlaw
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we...
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The Life of Saul Bellow
For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book...
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge, one of Thomas Hardy’s most powerful novels, opens with a scene of shocking heartlessness. In a fit of drunken rage, Michael Henchard, an...
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The Question of Separatism
Jane Jacobs, writing from her adoptive country, uses the problems facing an independence-seeking Quebec and Canada as a whole to examine the universal problem of...
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Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner,...
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Custer's Trials
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryIn this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping...
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The Guest Room
When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She takes their young daughter to...
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Story of a Sociopath
I’m scum. Yes, I always have been. . . . I know what I did, and what I should have done. A spellbinding and provocative psychological thriller that shows just how far a man...
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Battling the Gods
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those...
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Notwithstanding
As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local...
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The Patient's Playbook
The Patient's Playbook is a call to action—to change the way you manage your health and the health of your family. Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable...
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When Parents Part
Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach, author of the best-selling Your Baby & Child, details the effects of divorce...
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The U.S. Constitution: The Citizen's Annotated Edition
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection As Khizr Khan dramatically demonstrated at this year’s Democratic National Convention, the U.S. Constitution is the central point...
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Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?
As America descends deeper into polarization and paralysis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has done the seemingly impossible—he has explained the origins of morality,...
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Insider Baseball
A Vintage Shorts Selection Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail...
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The Invention of Nature
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.NATIONAL BEST SELLEROne of the New York Times 10 Best Books...
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Istanbul Letters
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection “Why do some forms of violence—the beheading of journalists by the Islamic State, a bombing in Ankara, or the attacks in San...
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The Mare
One of the Best Books of the YearThe New York Times • The Washington Post • NPR • San Francisco Chronicle • Vanity Fair • Milwaukee...
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The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
A Vintage Shorts SelectionThe bestselling and prizewinning author of The Nine and American Heiress tells the dramatic and gripping insider’s story of the momentous...
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay
A Vintage Shorts Selection A timely reissue of acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter’s authoritative and unforgettable essay. First published in 1964 and no less relevant...
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The Real Costs of American Health Care
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection Despite all attempts to make it otherwise, the American health care system remains arcane, bloated, inefficient, and damaging to...
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