Poetry and the beauty of nature combine for this breathtaking celebration of the year. In this stunning combination of wordcraft and woodcuts, readers meet the changing seasons with thirteen poems, all in different poetic structures, from award-winning...

“Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars . . . but...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites,...

"You know how, very occasionally in your life, there's a 'before and after' reading experience? Well, reading War and Peace with Tolstoy Together has been that for me--a milestone not just in reading but in living."--Michael LanganFrom the acclaimed...

The Declaration Of Independence Depicted Native Americans As Bloodthirsty Savages, And From Its Founding The United States Aimed To Expand Westward By Seizing Indigenous Lands. While White Settlers Saw These Conquests As Victories For 'true Religion,'...

Invents and defines a new category of groundbreaking architecture. Architects, historians, and theorists have been obsessed with fascist architecture since postmodernism. But who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look...

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at...

"Soules''s excellent book makes sense of the capitalist forces we all feel but cannot always name... Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin arms architects and the general public with an essential understanding of how capitalism makes property. Required...

Mushrooms--psychoactive, medicinal, or delicious--have fascinated us for millennia. They have facilitated spiritual quests in ancient and modern times, and their whimsical forms have inspired artists from Bosch to Kusama. Join The Gourmand's culinary...

"I could not put it down." —Marcy Dermansky, author of Hot Air"Sharp, hilarious, and painfully relatable." —Monika Kim, author of The Eyes Are the Best Part Gone Girl meets Big Swiss in this electric, binge-of-a-debut about a millennial antihero who...

An intimate insider's account of New York's most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their pathIn 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York's bombed-out downtown, where...

The first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century" (John Berryman).When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” in Partisan Review in 1937, he...

A "quirky" (NPR) and "enchanting" (Guardian) summer read: travel to Paris for a behind-the-scenes look at the world's most famous cemetery, Père-Lachaise, and unlock its many mysteries with the cemetery's head curator as your guide. "Not only is this a...

“As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read.” —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker“[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian“Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this.”...

"Groundbreaking . . . Chang's lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family's time capsule and an artist's timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem." —NPRNow in paperback, from the poet who “resurrects mediums” (The...

Cooking is magic: the transformation of simple ingredients into culinary spells with the power to nourish our bodies, nurture our souls, and gather us around the table. In Plant-Based Magic, clinical herbalist and chef Lisanna Wallance shows how to...

One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of...

The book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino has had more...

A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable...