The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and inviting translation
With Malcolm Gladwell-like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multi-faceted democracy and how to minimise their corrosive effects in everyday life
A radiant, highly anticipated debut from the Well–Read Black Girl Books series, delving into the secret lives of three women on the eve of Eritrean independence
A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent ideas about women came from
What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was an illusion?
An astonishing true story–one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century–told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (The Washington Post)
An explosive, deeply revisionist work that reveals how a renegade English Duke and Thomas Paine, the firebrand polemicist, almost brought the American Revolution to Britain
A vital reclamation of queer themes in the poetry of ancient Rome from an electric new talent in classical translation
From The New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States
An indispensable, irreverent lexicon that gives Americans the language we need to face the threat of authoritarianism today–from the country that’s been surviving it for a century
On the 250th anniversary of his greatest achievement, two leading historians take on the question, “Does Thomas Jefferson still matter?”
From a maverick of 20th century fiction, a domestic drama set on the cusp of Brazil’s abolition of slavery