A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection Welcome to China in 1985, to a nation that has just begun to swing open for the West, and specifically for a young Time maga...
Part of the TED series: The Art of StillnessIn this age of constant movement and connectedness, when so many of us are all over the place, perhaps staying in on...
The articles in this collection tell about places from Patagonia to Ivory Coast, describing different modes of transport across America and other places such as...
The renowned nonfiction annual makes its Penguin debut For more than a decade, Philip Zaleski has collected into a single volume the best spiritual essays and ...
"Earns its place on the very short shelf of books on Japan that are of permanent value."--Times Literary Supplement. "Richie is a stupendous travel writer; the ...
Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R. K. Narayan at his best, offering e...
An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfort...