Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany
One of The New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022-The New Yorker Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A prize-winning scholar rewrites 400 years of American history f
From a New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic
An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others
Barbie is a strong, independent doll. But is she a feminist icon? It’s complicated.
Winston Churchill’s frequent stays at the White House inform this illuminating account of America and Britain’s “Special Relationship” during the Second World War and the 1950s
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
Dante's first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by a beloved teacher of Italian literature and culture
Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut
With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs yet.
Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.
"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."—Nation