From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a ground-breaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water
No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided
A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled
A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America
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
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself
A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban
From The New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis of the Weimar Republic, when hyperinflation and political upheaval threatened to unravel a new experiment in democracy
From the Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America
The untold saga of John Randolph’s 383 slaves, freed in his much-contested will of 1821, finally comes to light
A masterfully lyrical translation of the complete Commedia that brings Dante’s famous terza rima to contemporary readers
From former poet laureate of Kentucky and founder of the Affrilachian Poets, a collection of historical poetry that gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers