"A book that will last, that you will reread all your life and then pass on to your grandchildren. Or ask to be buried with."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of...

"Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation."--Guardian A blistering, refracted novel from the Booker-shortlisted author, elegantly bookending his Geoffrey Faber Memorial award-winning story collection The Quantity Theory of...

A midwife is awoken one night to help a djinn give birth (Yemen). Ghosts of "loose-haired" women wander the newly erected border after the fall of the Soviet Union (Uzbekistan). A water ghost bound to a creek falls for the ghost of a girl wandering the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key to survival. This is a beautiful and deeply engaging...

The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the AnalectsLabeled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down through the generations, purportedly a...

Thirty-four American photographers capture urban life across America from the turn of the century to the new millenniumMany of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century have the city at the heart of their oeuvre. With their revolutionary...

A publication chronicling a new sound art project led by the bestselling author of Lost Children Archive and The Story of My Teeth, Valeria Luiselli, with Ricardo Giraldo and Leo HeiblumEchoes from the Borderlands is a timely, poignant exploration of the...

What is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders, and reflects on her own...

The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow ClicquotSummer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband,...

"If you haven't read Stewart O'Nan, you have some catching up to do."--Stephen King "Scathing and intelligent . . . Makes the skin crawl." --Los Angeles Times In Stewart O'Nan's cult classic crime novel, a death-row inmate gives her confession--a...

A story of displacement and resistance during the early days of the Nazi occupation of France.Last Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last...

Two leading behavioral scientists argue we should reject "nudge" policies and stop blaming personal failure for society's failures Two decades ago, behavioral economics burst from academia to the halls of power, claiming that correcting individual...

The internationally renowned Jesus scholar uses the latest research into the historical Jesus to paint a vivid new portrait of this important historical and religious figure, based on the a close-up analysis of New Testament writings. 12,500 first...

Both historical treatment and critical analysis, this work by a noted physicist takes a fascinating look at a fundamental of physics, tracing its development from ancient to modern times. Kepler's initiation of scientific conceptualization, Newton's...

Paul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can...

Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality illustrations, and it reflects throughout its publisher's conviction that good design is an...

From 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called “Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines.”Although the lectures are over ten years old, most of the material is timeless and presents a...

"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In Mind, Searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a...

Eminent theologian Jaroslav Pelikan has been translating, editing, and studying the Christian creeds and confessions of faith for sixty years. This book is the historical and theological distillation of that work. In Credo, Pelikan addresses essential...

Book by Ralph Abraham, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor Ratiu, Richard Cushman