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Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into fiction, reality, crime and place . . . Perhaps when it comes to fiction and reality, what we need most are critics like Lesser, who can dissect the former with the tools of the latter." --Kate Tuttle, The New York Times Book ReviewAn in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at large...

Even those unmoved by its subject will thrill to [Scandinavian Noir], a beautifully crafted inquiry into fiction, reality, crime and place . . . Perhaps when it comes to fiction and reality, what we need most are critics like Lesser, who can dissect the former with the tools of the latter." --Kate Tuttle, The New York Times Book ReviewAn in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at large...

A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director

The first biography of the iconic American architect that delves fully into his life and work.

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Perfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn's award-winning documentary, My Architect, Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick is a major exploration of iconic architect Louis Kahn's life and work.

Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser's account of three separate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin, a city she had never expected to visit, her unwritten book on the philosopher David Hume, and her long friendship with the writer Leonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured. Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, once examined, things are never quite what she thought they were.

At the center of this book is Lesser's investigation in a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. This gripping work brings us face to face with our own most disturbing cultural impulses. Halftones.

Reading Why I Read delivers all the pleasure of discussing one's favorite books with a marvelously articulate, intelligent, opinionated friend. It's like joining the book club of your dreams."-Francine Prose"Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics, " writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, she draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of ed...

. Drawing on extensive original research, lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students, and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Wendy Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive man, which reveals the mind behind some of the twentieth century's most celebrated architecture.

In this unusual memoir of the life of the mind, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review reflects upon the choices she has made in pursuit of her vocation as a self-described "eighteenth-century man of letters." Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, describes how her education, her experiences, and the works of her favorite writers, artists, and performers have shaped and deepened her understanding of the world. She shows ...

Fifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language with which she grew up. Leonard Michaels spoke only Yiddish until he was five, and still found its traces in his English language writin...

Revisiting her favorite books after 20 or 30 years, Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds--in the books, in herself, and in the wider world.