In Burning Sky, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first, a cantankerous climatologist, raises... Read More

Conor O'Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It's a... Read More

Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains,... Read More

Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his... Read More

Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana, taught to scrap... Read More

Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications, this volume is a tour... Read More

With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to... Read More

First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the “smart cookies” who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came... Read More

The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of... Read More

As an academically gifted Latino kid growing up in the Bronx, Stephen Bruno's family had high aspirations for his future.... Read More