Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how...

Never before in English, this delectable novella offers a hilarious new version of Genesis, where, rather than living in innocent bliss, Adam and Eve live in terror of being stomped by an IchthyosaurusGloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam...

A lyrical yet unforgettably intense portrait of Colombian society by one of the country’s most renowned novelists. Taking place entirely on a single evening―Friday, April 10, 1970―in a large Bogotá mansion, House of Fury tells a hair-raising story. Nacho...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.”―New York Times Book Review“A provocative culmination of Slotkin’s field-defining arguments on the...

A Leading Expert On Us-russian Relations Reveals How The United States And Its European Allies Set The Course For The War In Ukraine-and Offers A Sobering Indictment Of American Foreign Policy Since The Fall Of The Soviet Union-- Provided By Publisher.

Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild?...

Raymond Geuss is a critic of liberalism, a politics so pervasive in the West that it goes unnoticed. His attention sharpened by his own unorthodox intellectual journey, Geuss locates what we fail to see in the status quo: its shallowness and futility...

The Crises Of American Democracy And Criminal Justice Are Intimately Connected. David A. Sklansky Shows How Police, Courts, And Prisons Helped To Break American Democracy And Can Be Reformed To Empower Equitable Self-governance. Seeking Durable Change,...

Dreaming Reality Looks To Mystical Traditions To Challenge Orthodoxies Of Brain Science That Model Consciousness In Purely Physical Terms. Instead Of Privileging The Experience Of Waking Life, The Authors Study Visionary States, Ego Death, Meditation,...

Lucy Caplan Explores Black Opera In The First Of The Twentieth Century, Before The Golden Age Inaugurated By Marian Anderson. Early Black Opera Was Decidedly Countercultural, Fostering Aesthetic Innovation And Antiracist Activism, As Artists Found In...

The British Crown's 1813 Legalization Of Christian Evangelism Among Its Indian Subjects Set Off A Storm Of Criticism In Bengal. Mou Banerjee Shows That Hindu And Muslim Detractors Energetically Marginalized Converts, In The Process Developing Ideals That...

From the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, the fascinating and inspiring story of taking on the biggest villains and toughest autocrats around the worldIn three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch grew to a staff of more...

The perfect introduction to American photographer Mary Ellen Mark, best known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography.

Offering a new perspective on Weegee's oeuvre, Weegee: The Society of the Spectacle presents the photographer's iconic images beside lesser-known works.

A brilliantly illustrated survey of the international comic book landscape over the past sixty years.

An omnibus edition collecting fifteen volumes of Hokusai's dedicated drawing manuals: e-tehon.