1978 Book Award Winners

Twelve stories about Black Americans in the years just after the legal barriers came down, when the question stopped being whether you were allowed...

Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theater director, has retired from London to an isolated house on a northern cliff to eat simply, swim daily and...

Ceramos is a small port on the Turkish coast, an old sponge diving town starting its conversion into a resort, and the novel gathers into it a...

More than sixty stories in the order he wrote them, from the late 1940s to the 1970s, covering the same ground so consistently that reading them...

Carl Sagan set out in The Dragons of Eden to explain how human intelligence actually evolved, pulling together anthropology, evolutionary biology,...

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. argues that modern American capitalism was built not primarily by market forces acting alone but by a new class of salaried...

Walter Jackson Bate's biography follows Samuel Johnson from a childhood in Lichfield marked by scrofula and near blindness in one eye, through...

The Path Between the Seas tells the whole story of the Panama Canal, 1870 to 1914, and it is really two epics joined at a grave. The first is...

Collected Poems gathers several decades of Howard Nemerov's work into a single volume, poetry written almost entirely in fixed forms and meter at a...

The Heechee left. Nobody knows why, or where, or what they looked like. What they left behind is a hollowed asteroid parked near the sun containing...

Snake is a healer on an Earth left broken by nuclear war, and she travels the desert with three serpents in a case. Grass, Mist and Sand are her...

Franz Westen writes weird tales for a living and lives in an old apartment house in San Francisco. His wife, Daisy, is dead, and he is climbing out...

Boris Kotlikoff defected from the Soviet Union with nothing but his standing as a poet, which makes what happens to him senseless by every rule of...

Jess Aarons, an artistic, poor boy in rural Virginia who spends the summer training to be the fastest runner in his grade, is beaten in a race by...

Peter Spier opens his retelling of the flood with his own translation of a short Dutch poem by the seventeenth century writer Jacobus Revius, sixty...

The novel opens with Meshulam Moskat, an aging, wealthy patriarch presiding over a large, sprawling Jewish family in Warsaw, and follows that...