Throughout the work, Johnson employs characters, locales, incidents, and motifs from his own life, but the narrator is less a conscious self-portrait than a representation of the author’s own ambivalence.

These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost again.

This is the sweeping story of a revolution with immense public and personal consequences: the doubling of the human life span.

This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society, arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in quite different ways to most of the other music that surrounds us.

Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

From business leaders and organizations to individuals, families and communities, Who Moved My Cheese? has transformed lives and been hailed around the world.

More than a military history, this book explains how Scott's aristocratic pretensions were out of place with emerging notions of equality in Jacksonian America and made him an unappealing political candidate in his bid for the presidency.