Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.
An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice from early America to today
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry
Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius
For history readers, travellers and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris
An urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines
The first new translation of Kierkegaard’s masterwork in a generation brings to life this impassioned investigation of the self
A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later
Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryFor fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America
A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany