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“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New Yorker The famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman. A...

“A portrait of political campaigning that is more like what we hope than what we fear . . . a stout defense—indeed, the best I have read—of the Obama years.” —David Gergen, The New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a...

This audiobook is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the world as it is and the world as we’d like it to be. How they can stunt us - or save us. Some of the people you will meet believe in things most people don’t. Ghosts. UFOs. Heaven and the devil. The literal creation of the universe in six days.

ISIS’ land may be vanishing, but the dream of a true Islamic state—of heaven on earth—remains.

Early True Believers: The Untold Story of Silicon Alley is a 1990s saga of ambition and innovation set in Manhattan’s Silicon Alley, a swath of downtown that served as New York City’s nerve center of tech entrepreneurship. The series features the stories of a forgotten cohort of early internet visionaries, countercultural social networks, the digital gold rush, and the lavish events that came with it, including one held in an underground Tribeca bunker that abruptly ended in a police raid—a harbinger of the upheaval to come.

Beginning in the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution began to erode the position of authority. As a result, new philosophers began constructing a universal rationality independent of faith. This schism fundamentally changed the course of Western civilization, and it has had consequences that remain with us to this day. This 36-lecture journey will help you understand exactly what the debate has been and will continue to be about.

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture—at a steep personal cost HUGO AWARD FINALIST EISNER AWARD NOMINEE “True Believer is in every imaginable way the biography that Stan Lee deserves—ambitious...

In 1902, Sadakichi Hartmann attempted to transport a theater full of people across a vast ocean using only perfume and an electric fan.

Undercover in Sioux Falls with a queer, rogue taxidermist.

Despite the France-baiting, the coast-baiting, and - worst of all - the incessant brunette-baiting, Sweet Valley High’s world of flat superlative descriptions proves inescapably seductive.

Dickens and Hardy knew it, and Chaucer knew it before them: the face can be a powerful expression of personality. So why, in the last hundred years, has literature increasingly put its characters behind masks?

In defense of depressing literature.

The American aquarium boom can be reduced to this equation: aquarium + shopping malls = urban renewal. Where’s the education in that?

Notes toward the creation of a collection of the most important works of literature of all time, including tales of crippling self-doubt and possible eternal damnation.

A lecture delivered by the short-story writer Gary Lutz to the students of Columbia University’s writing program in New York on September 25, 2008.

Freud, Dora (no, not that Dora), and surfing’s secret Austro-Hungarian roots.

In the great tradition of Southern literature, the fiction of Breece D’J Pancake brings us down to Hades and acts a road map to disasters that the oppression of poverty can wreak on a life.

Discovering a life-animating, universe-size work of literary criticism of the sort that can’t be written anymore (currently shelved in the “Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor” at the San Francisco Public Library).

Spiritualism may have lost its original steam-punk appeal, but it continues to thrive in Lily Dale, the town that talks to the dead.

A Parisian collective fascinated by the possibilities of literature beholden to mathematical rigor keeps half a century's worth of documents in a surprisingly questionable state of alphabetization.