An expansive look at more than a century of Pan-Africanist art and the ways it embodies the movement’s principles and global ambitionsSince the term Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, the movement’s promise has been to foster liberation and...

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through todayWhen Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex, shop for groceries, listen to...

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power“A monumental exploration. . . . It is the most important treatment of its subject since Wilhelm...

A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoirLonglisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize“Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of...

A Biography Of Vergil, Rome's Greatest Poet, By The Acclaimed Translator Of The Aeneid The Aeneid Stands As A Towering Work Of Classical Roman Literature And A Gripping Dramatization Of The Best And Worst Of Human Nature. In The Process Of Creating This...

A Leading Legal Scholar Asks A Fundamental Question: Do We Need A Theory Of Constitutional Interpretation? Do We Need A Theory Of Constitutional Interpretation? It Is A Common Argument Among Originalists That However Objectionable You May Find Their...

A bold challenge to a central assumption in modern moral and legal thinking, showing that wrongs and rights are not flip sides of the same coin but instead represent fundamentally distinct moral phenomena.It is commonplace to regard rights and wrongs as...

"Leaving navigates the chasm between responsibility and desire when two long-lost lovers reconnect. This beautiful book will sweep you away." ―People MagazineWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?“I never thought I’d see you...

A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan's cities in 1945.

A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon...

The remarkable story of how confession became a defining rite for American Catholics―and then, beginning in the 1970s, all but disappeared.For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting...

Spells, rituals and elemental magick for dealing with the stress and strain of 21st-century life.The modern world has pushed many of us to breaking point. Our bodies and minds are burnt out, and we can feel anxious, inadequate and lonely. This is because...

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century.His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set...

Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche...

A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process—and a radical proposal on how to fight back.In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and...

A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was preceded by a series...