Literature

Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art from the Editors of The New Yorker

By The New Yorker Magazine

The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree of Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome

By Vanessa James

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester

The Pen Commandments: A Guide for the Beginning Writer

By Steven Frank

The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

By John Dufresne

Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds

By Harold Bloom

Selected Essays

By George Orwell

Why Orwell Matters

By Christopher Hitchens

Take on the Street

By Arthur Levitt

Sandy Koufax

Brotherhood of the Bomb

By Gregg Herken

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