MARINER BOOKS

(P/B) COMMITTED
Grey's Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist's funny and moving memoir about his residency at Harvard Medical School. Adam Stern was a medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University before (incomprehensibly to him) being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His classmates were high achievers from Harvard, Yale, and Duke; faculty raved about the group as though they had won the lottery, nicknaming them "The Golden Class." In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on t...
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(P/B) MAP
"If you want the world in a nutshell," a Polish critic remarks, "try Szymborska." But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew. Carefully edited by her long time, award winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska's work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred and fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet's last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English. Map is the first Engl...
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(P/B) THE STORYTELLING ANIMAL
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe, we spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems - just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the lates...
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(P/B) THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE SWORD
"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture" is an influential 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict. It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture. The book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture during the occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures. A...
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(P/B) THE WORLD DOESN'T END
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them....
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