Robert Fass

Using fascinating profiles of companies and products old and new, including Red Bull, the iPod, Timberland, and American Apparel, New York Times Consumed columnist Rob Walker demonstrates that modern consumers are likely to embrace marketing and use...

From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern worldOne day Arthur...

Hamilton is crushed by a secret so shameful that it is beyond bearing.His heir is dead; his daughter has gone insane with grief.His dear wife, Eliza, now shudders at his touch.He never intended to send his son to his death. That wasn't in his...

A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nationIn the political turmoil that convulsed America after George Washington's death, the...

A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag.Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness...

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy’s passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond.Here is Frank Conroy’s wry, sad, beautiful tale of...

Harry Trellman doesn't belong. Not in the Chicago orphanage where he is sent by his mother, not in high school (too brainy), not even on the streets. Human attachments? Yes, he has them, but they are like everything else in his life, singular and...

Haunted by the sudden death of her grown son, Countess Zigana Nadazdy-Hauke is as unhappy as she is elegant. But is she miserable enough to drown herself in the bath? That’s the conventional wisdom in Vienna. But Rheinhardt and Liebermann have another...

A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance runningWhen Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag...

He demanded the immediate dispatch of two suitably trained operatives to Salzburg. Extreme measures might be necessary.In 1945, with their thousand-year empire falling around them and the Allies on their heels, the Nazis hide a sealed chest in the...

A writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soaring flights and broken family bondsA brilliant ski jumper has to be fearless—Jon Bargaard remembers this well. His memories of daring leaps and risks...

A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our eraThere was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. “Liberal” now conveys not a specific...

From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel of an Israeli father and daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.In the captivating opening of this novel, the celebrated Russian-born...

An astounding memoir about a Jewish teenager forced to become a German soldierAs a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their...