Explores how ‘England’ and ‘Englishness’ have been imagined since the 1960s.
A biography of perhaps the most important poet of his generation, John Ashbery.
An in-depth social and natural history of the much-loved, highly symbolic rowan tree.
The first history of Korean photography for a Western readership.
An enthralling look at wandering, belonging, alienation and hope throughout history.
A reading of Duchamp’s ‘telegram’ to the art world, a urinal signed R. Mutt.
An examination of ‘racial science’ in the 19th and early 20th century.
The first history of pre-modern European anatomy and its visual culture.
A superbly illustrated scientific and cultural account of wind.
An illumination of the secret underworld upon which we live.
A new, family-based history of the region known as Kyivan Rus’.
A behind-the-scenes look into computer simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation.