A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last on His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century
On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry
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
This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a foundational document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for our perilous times
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYBest Books of 2023: Electric LiteratureWinner of the New England Book Award for PoetryFor fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria... Læs mere
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
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