A history of the ill-fated ocean liner, whose shipwreck during her maiden voyage in 1912 remains one of the greatest sea disasters of all time. A psychologist and historian, Wade tells the story of the Titanic from a variety of perspectives--from her construction to her sinking to the effect of her sinking upon public fears and public policy.

A collection of essays by African-American sons and daughters, including some well-known writers such as John Edgar Wideman and Pearl Cleage, each reflecting in some way upon aspects of black fatherhood.

Frederica Wagman writes of family, of passing generations, of love and striving, and of grief, loss, and renewal. Her narrator begins with a day blurred in memory and concludes many all-too-fleeting years later, when she meets the woman her son would marry and realizes who she has become. Her son is marrying Marty Fish, born poor and abused, and the world of Mrs. Hornstien is one of triple strands of pearls and vaulted ceilings.

Ellen Rock's beloved cousin Randall dies in World War II, leaving her his diary and a book he has written about the gardens in Kyoto. Ellen's story, and those of her sister Rita, her husband Henry, and her uncle Sterling--Randall's father--provide a multi-level look at a family for whom grief and loss are a way of life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Walcott's first collection of prose writings includes critical essays on 10 writers as diverse as Robert Lowell, Hemingway, and V. S. Naipaul, as well as meditations on Caribbean life and culture. It also includes his Nobel address, "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory" and a short story.

Anne Waldman, a Beat poet, collects the best and most important writings of the Beat generation's literature. The book includes selections from "Mexico City Blues" by Jack Kerouac, "Naked Lunch", by William S. Burroughs, "Kaddish" by Allen Ginsberg, as well as writings by Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Diane Di Prima, Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure and Gary Snyder. The volume also contains short biographies of the contributors and a guide to 'Beat places' around the world.