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The Opening of P&P at Union Market

After months of preparation, we’re excited to announce the opening on June 19 of a Politics and Prose branch in the Union Market district in northeast DC. Many of you may be familiar with efforts underway in recent years to revitalize that historic DC neighborhood, once a hub for food distribution throughout the city. The... read more

American Sonnets

Monday, July 16, 2018 at 7 p.m.

At the Wharf

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 7 p.m.

New Thriller

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 7 p.m.

In conversation with Tayla Burney

Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 6 p.m.

Bestsellers

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over Cover Image

The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West Cover Image

Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump Cover Image

John McCain: American Maverick Cover Image

Calypso Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels Cover Image

Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland Cover Image

Life in the Garden Cover Image

Fascism: A Warning Cover Image

There There Cover Image

The President Is Missing Cover Image

Warlight Cover Image

A Gentleman in Moscow Cover Image

An American Marriage Cover Image

Circe Cover Image

Number One Chinese Restaurant Cover Image

Florida Cover Image

The Overstory Cover Image

The Immortalists Cover Image

Children & Teens Books

The Journey Cover Image

All of Us Cover Image

Marwan's Journey Cover Image

Her Right Foot Cover Image

Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation Cover Image

The Old Man Cover Image

Audiobooks: Start Listening

The Power Cover Image

Grant Cover Image

Sing, Unburied, Sing Cover Image

Music

Next Events

Mon

16

7:00 pm

Terrance Hayes - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Tue

17

10:30 am

Story Time — at Union Market

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Megan Abbott - Give Me Your Hand

Tue

17

7:00 pm

Kyle Dargan, celeste doaks, and Denise Low, moderated by Christian Teresi - Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Wed

18

7:00 pm

Ben Hecht - Reclaiming the American Dream: Proven Solutions for Creating Economic Opportunity for All — in conversation with Lee Hockstader

Thu

19

7:00 pm

CANCELED: Christian Kracht - The Dead

Fri

20

7:00 pm

John Lingan - Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk — in conversation with Maxwell George

Fri

20

7:00 pm

Cara Black - Murder on the Left Bank — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

Sat

21

1:00 pm

Bryan W. Marshall and Bruce C. Wolpe - The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama's Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill — in conversation with Tamera Luzzatto

Sat

21

3:30 pm

Andrew Lawler - The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Sat

21

6:00 pm

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - Stay With Me — in conversation with Tayla Burney

Sat

21

8:00 pm

Nerds! Trivia Night

Staff Picks

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In this groundbreaking book, Esther Perel, innovative author of Mating In Captivity explores the subject... read more
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Like John Banville’s graceful, elegant fictions, Wood’s second novel is less about action than it is... read more
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The Shades is a great little pressure cooker of a novel—an ideal literary thriller. It springs a... read more
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All readers should rejoice at the sudden burst of writing newly available from Moroccan master Ahmed... read more
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Like a mirror version of Patti Smith’s M Train, no description of Fox will contain it all, not with an... read more
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Alright now, I could praise every book that makes up the Dark Tower series, because they are some of my... read more

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In 1935, Albert Ellingham opens Ellingham Academy, a prestigious boarding school for gifted students... read more
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In the cozy little forest animal community of Burrow Down, a mystery is unfolding: all the bedtime... read more
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Move aside, Scooby Doo! There’s a new crime solving canine in town! Peter's dog, Nell, has an amazing... read more

Gifts & Accessories

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Politics & Prose Gift Cards can be purchased here on our website or at the store... read more
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We’re stuck on you, your notebook, laptop, and really anywhere else you care to (... read more
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Illustrated by Alison Oliver
14 x 15.5"

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