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The Outcast Cardinal

Memoirs

by József Cardinal Mindszenty


The Grants

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant

edited by John Y. Simon


Taping Friday

Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales From Out of Africa

collected by Peter Beard


A Higher Selfishness?

Humboldt's Gift

by Saul Bellow


Prosecution Witnesses

Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag

by Alexander Dolgun and Patrick Watson

The Education of Lev Navrozov

by Lev Navrozov


Divine Wind

Shogun: A Novel of Japan

by James Clavell

The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan

by Ivan Morris


Off the Plantation

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

by Ira Berlin

They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861

by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease

The Emancipation of Angelina Grimké

by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin


Two Modern Masters

Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black

Arnold Schoenberg

by Charles Rosen


Sin and Significance

The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

by Walker Percy


Shaken Men

The Impossible Proof

by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck

The D'Arthez Case

by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Michael Lebeck

To the Unknown Hero

by Hans Erich Nossack, translated by Ralph Manheim


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