Nathan: 1413 books

A major literary rediscovery, this is a searing first novel written inside Trenton State Prison in 1968. Howard Street sold over a million copies.  One of the first literary depictions of black ghetto life, this hard boiled novel evokes a lost time in African-American culture. It is based on...

Animal Tales is filled with big-hearted stories about pets from all over Australia.

The world as we know it has fallen into a state of chaos. The dead are rising, and are attacking the last remaining living people. Businesses and residences that have not yet been overrun by the hordes of ghouls are being ransacked by looters. A small group of survivors from the countryside seek shelter...

This tale of a book-loving tough guy in a decimated Manhattan is “like Motherless Brooklyn dosed with Charlie Huston . . . Delirious and haunting” (Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand). After a flu pandemic, a large-scale terrorist attack, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New...

FOOD FOR REFLECTION Life is a constant struggle for all that dwell on earth. The rich has its form of worries -perhaps how to generate more money, while the poor stays weary on how to make ends meet. It seems as though the more hurdles we cross, the more that awaits us, and no matter...

Nisha has always been a good Tamil daughter. She tries to keep her grades up so she can meet her parents' high expectations of her. They want her to become a doctor or an engineer, and of course she is not allowed to be in a romantic relationship while she is still a teenager. Nisha has discovered...

The Unorthodox Haggadah is a way to enjoy the strange and wonderful world of religion, while skipping the boring parts.  Ritual is at the core of every culture, but people are no longer into dogma. This book offers the ritual with a hilarious, irreverent twist. It is genuinely funny, fun to flip...

Reading plays evokes a wide array of reactions, from trepidation to overwhelming excitement and joy. Without the guiding hand of a director or the specific interpretation of actors, however, reading a theatrical play instead of viewing a performance offers its own set of challenges. The plays...

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory. In examining the relationship between these two closely intertwined movements, we see that aesthetic experience is not merely a passive...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...

You have made it to the back cover of this book and are probably weighing your options, questioning whether indulging in the contents of these pages will be worth the distinctively pretentious act of purchasing a book of aphorisms. Allow the first humble opinion you encounter regarding this book shed...

This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...

They say that people go there when they're ready to die. They say Death himself is a patron. That's where the tavern gets its name. Azrael's Stop. Watering hole for the Angel of Death. Since Ceph started tending bar there, many people have come through the Stop, whether looking for some peace...