An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life
A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy
The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issues
A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles
An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric times to today
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures
A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian history
A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth century
A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives