Product Description: Henry Fairlie was one of the most colorful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term “The Establishment,” sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and caroused with Kingsley Amis, among  many others...read more

Product Description: "The pleasure of reading the Education is . . . the pleasure of seeing history come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history to the actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed the humanity so often concealed in history...read more

Product Description: In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. The photos, both candid snapshots and studied portraits, had been confiscated, but instead of being destroyed they were hidden at great risk and saved...read more

Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and 'Mansfield Park,' and includes the preface to the author's 'The Liberal Imagination.' (view table of contents)

As he prepares to observe the Jewish rituals of the traditional year of mourning in honor of his late father, the author reflects on the history and meaning of the Kaddish, his family's odyssey through grief, life in his synagogue, and the meaning of faith and tradition. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: a collections of aphorisms