Product Description: The New Yorker critic, one of our most important film writers draws from a selection of his published pieces over a dozen years to examine the art, business, and future of what used to be America’s primary popular entertainment and is now an endangered species...read more

Product Description: For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its unpredictable manifestations, particularly as it responds to institutional or regimented settings or to democracy at work...read more

Product Description: Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mussolini's racial laws of 1938 to the institutionalized horror of Auschwitz...read more

Product Description: From a New York Times bestselling author comes an argument against snark---the nasty combination of snide and sarcasm---with lessons on how to live without it by thinking and debating with true wit and intelligence.

Product Description: From a New York Times bestselling author comes an argument against snark---the nasty combination of snide and sarcasm---with lessons on how to live without it by thinking and debating with true wit and intelligence.

Amazon.com Review: David Denby, New York city movie critic and journalist, entered Columbia University in 1991 to take the university's famous course in "Great Books." This is the course that, in preserving the notion of the western canon without apology to multiculturalists and feminists, has been an unlikely focus of America's culture war in recent years...read more

The author of Great Books presents a candid memoir of money, desire, greed, and love as he describes his divorce, its effects on his life, and his irrational plunge into the stock market madness of the high-tech boom, discussing his own motives and illusions in terms of the simultaneous blindness and greed that consumed the nation. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.