Pantheon imprint: 214 books
Driving Home
An American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America....
Moanin' at Midnight
The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires.
Born...
The Brazen Age
New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New...
In Fact
Essays on Writers and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
From the acclaimed novelist (Henry and Clara, Two Moons), essayist (A Book of One's Own), and critic (1998 National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing)—an engaging new collection of essays.
In Fact gathers the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two...
Good Living Street
Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living...
Cezanne
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time and beyond, Cézanne...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research,...
Shocking True Story
The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential: “Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house” . . . Tom Wolfe called it “the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world” . . . Time defined it as “a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig...
by Robert Schumann
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Edited by Konraad Wolff
Translated by Paul Rosenfeld
With twenty black-and-white illustrations
Schumann’s literary gifts and interests almost equaled his musical ones. From boyhood on he was drawn to literary expression, and his writings on music belong to the best among the romantic literature...
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented...
The Happy Life
The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-)
“Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this...
Ostend
Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is...
by Saburo Ienaga
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.
by Tamara K. Hareven
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Through the prism of one turn-of-the-century factory-city, Tamara Hareven and Randolph Langenbach have captured the historic experience of millions of Americans. We hear for the first time the eloquent voices—sometimes elegiac, sometimes bitter, yet always powerful—of immigrant being turned into...