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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …

Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1976, Penguin Books)
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by …

"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …

"Franz Kafka's diaries and letters suggest that his fascination with America grew out of a desire to break away from …