What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author Christopher Beha gave up on God. After reading Bertrand Russell’s classic text Why I Am Not a Christian, he became a committed atheist, certain that his days of belief were behind him. A youthful brush with mortality soon set Beha on a decades-long quest for meaning in a godless world.Why I Am Not an Atheist tells the story of this s...

A drama teacher finds unlikely celebrity thanks to a nearly forgotten sex tape in this ingenious . . . entertaining and thought provoking" novel ( Booklist).At thirty-three, Eddie Hartley has given up his dream of becoming an actor for the reality of life as a drama teacher at a boys' prep school. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it is one disappointment too many.Weighted down with debt, his wife's mounting unha...

**Brought to you by Penguin.What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?**Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author Christopher Beha gave up on God. After reading Bertrand Russell’s classic text Why I Am Not a Christian, he became a committed atheist, certain that his days of belief were behind him. A youthful brush with mortality soon set Beha on a decades-long quest for meaning in a godless world.Why I Am Not an Atheist tell...

**Named One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026One of The New York Times’s anticipated books of February!What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?National Book Award–longlisted author Christopher Beha recounts his struggle with these questions while making an earnest appeal for readers to seek out answers of their own**Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author (and cradle Catholic) Christopher Beha gave up on God. Helped a...

This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom "makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion" ( The New York Times Book Review).While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned "five foot shelf" of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth century by Charles William Eliot—to educate herself during the ...

Charlie Blakeman vive en Washington Square, Nueva York, ha publicado su primera novela, que ha pasado sin pena ni gloria, y aunque se supone que está escribiendo la segunda en realidad se dedica a alternar con aspirantes a artistas en el apartamento que comparte con su primo.Un día se reencuentra por casualidad con Sophie Wilder, su novia de la universidad con la que rompió diez años antes y a la que no ve desde entonces. Retoman el contacto y Sophie le cuenta su vida desde que se ...