A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially for nearly two centuries
From “the most imaginative director in the US” (The New York Times) comes this generational work with a vision for transforming opera into a powerhouse cultural phenomenon
A bold, revisionist translation—in an innovative and inviting format—of one of the most influential texts in human history
“A powerful debut, populated with lovers and painters and musicians and poets, all of it unified by D.S. Waldman’s keen, unblinking eye.” —Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
A paradigm-shifting work that explores humanity’s most fundamental desire
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?
Frank X. Walker reimagines the experiences of Black American Civil War soldiers–including his own ancestors–who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation
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)