The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century
A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek—a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria
The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves
The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
An insightful new biography of the central figure of the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey