Knopf imprint: 1739 books
by George Minot
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From George Minot, author of The Blue Bowl (“Inexpressibly moving. It’s thrilling to find a writer this good.”—Amy Hempel), a new novel, moving, sensual, athletic (and aesthetic), set in the downtown New York yoga world at the turn of the millennium, a love story about a once-trendy artist...
by Thomas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Freedom and the Foundation is a study in depth of the first and most controversial of the tax-exempt foundations dedicated to research and public education in the field of civil liberties and civil rights: The Fund for the Republic.
The story of its struggle for survival, as Mr. Reeves demonstrates,...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...
A Little Too Close to God
The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
When David Horovitz emigrated from England to Israel in 1983, it was the fulfillment of a dream. But today, a husband and a father, he is torn between hope and despair, between the desire to make a difference and fear for his family's safety, between staying and going. In this candid and powerful...
Still Life with Bombers
Israel in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders collapsed at Camp David in 2000, a conflict as bloody as any that had ever occurred between the two peoples began. Now David Horovitz—editor of The Jerusalem Report—explores the quotidian and profound effects this conflict and its attendant...
The Rabbit Hunter
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
The latest internationally best-selling installment in the Joona Linna series sees him temporarily called back to the police force to solve a series of bizarre and increasingly horrifying murders.
Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in...
The Religion of Technology
The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.
It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian...
Country Music
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019
This gorgeously illustrated and hugely...
by Robert Dykstra
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The mountain-top volleys from any scholarly set-to among social historians concerning the elusive roots of American democracy do reach our ears from time to time, and this rather formidable cannonade just may strike off some sparks, although it is hardly leisure reading. The author's efforts seem...
by Paul M. Angle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a place...
A Woman's View
How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda…these are only a few of the hundreds of “women’s films” that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique,...
Lord of All the Dead
A nonfiction novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write.
Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend...
night thoughts
70 dream poems & notes from an analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In this remarkable and unique work, award-winning poet Sarah Arvio gives us a memoir about coming to terms with a life in crisis through the study of dreams.
As a young woman, threatened by disturbing visions, Arvio went into psychoanalysis to save herself. The result is a riveting sequence...
The Arc of a Covenant
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and explores the fate of the Jewish people.
In this brilliant investigation, one of our premier scholars of American...