An urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines
A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last on His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century
An impassioned investigation of the self, Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death, now newly translated, is a founding document of modern existentialism
A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur
A monumental feat of translation: Islam’s founding text rendered in limpid English verse that echoes the sublimity of the Arabic original
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation
A ground-breaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history
A leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin and Ron DeSantis’s veneration of Victor Orban
A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss and the power of redemption in the poetic letter to her long-gone parents
Confronting “the beast within” us all, Werewolf at Dusk celebrates the singular genius of David Small