The essential lifestyle guide for the millions of progressives on both coasts, The Nation Guide to The Nation will help left-of-center types find left-leaning shops, cultural institutions, and gathering places in their own hometowns and on the... [More...]

The events of 9/11 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of national emergency—Pearl Harbor and World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Lingeman re-creates the events—historic, humorous, and tragic—and personalities... [More...]

Written at the height of his power in the 1920s, the three novels in this volume continue the rigorous unmasking of American middle-class life begun by Lewis in "Main Street" and "Babbit."

The critic Edmund Wilson called Sinclair Lewis "one of the national poets." In the 1920s, Lewis fired off a fusillade of sensational novels, exploding American shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and photographic realism. With an unerring eye... [More...]

Writers know they’re taking a risk when they befriend other writers. No matter how deep their mutual affection or genuine their admiration, there’s bound to be rivalry–and of course the danger that secrets and intimacies may end up in... [More...]

Now an abridged edition of two highly acclaimed volumes Praise for Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871– 1907 " Dreiser’ s life has never been more vividly told. Lingeman’ s definitive book reveals the tough, uncompromising... [More...]