Named one of the 100 Best Novels Ever Written in English (The Guardian)Loos’s classic tale shows that questions of women and power—more relevant today than ever—can come in the most alluring of packages.
“The world’s greatest naturalist” (Jeffrey Sachs) proposes a plan to save Earth’s imperiled biosphere.
"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell
Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.
This “powerful and disturbing history” (The New York Times Book Review) exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas throughout America
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.
An event to be celebrated, a Dostoesvsky translation that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.
“It is impossible to do justice to the richness of Jesus and John Wayne”—Chrissy Stroop, The Boston Globe
The essential literary collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s ten finest short stories, from the celebrated editor of the two-volume New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history
A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century
One of The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022-The New Yorker Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history f