A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic artThe paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century...

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracyWhat happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends? In this provocative book, the...

Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry's boldest voices.

The celebrated National Book Award-winning writer's intimate exploration of how fact is transformed into fiction.

After Liberation In 1945, Koreans Erupted With Hopes For Reform That Had Been Bottled Up During Forty Years Of Japanese Imperial Rule. Arguing That Permanent North-south Division Was Far From Inevitable, Kornel Chang Explores The Movement For A Unified...

“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review“An astute,...

The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it. In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black...

Since The 1960s, The Supreme Court Has Enabled Mass Incarceration Through Rulings That Violate Constitutional Curbs On Pretrial Detention, Coercive Plea Bargaining, Excessive Sentences, And Other Forms Of State Overreach. Detailing Their Flaws, Rachel...

‘A beautiful, familiar and comforting cookbook … I can’t wait to buy it for everyone I know’ Candice Carty-Williams‘An outstanding gem of a book – vibrant, exciting and full of modern twists’ Ixta BelfrageAs the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie...

A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem...

Sensual and semi-fantastic, this erotic novel by José Donoso―for the first time in English―is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity via sexual desireAll of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats...

An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tellAs humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work,...

The last work by “one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy” (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private lifeVladimir Jankélévitch stands alongside Emmanuel Levinas as one of the most admired French...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building.Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to...

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...