A celebration of the diverse world of American watercolors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, featuring works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collection
A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux
A revelatory study exploring wood’s many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany
A timely examination, through the dual lenses of culture and climate change, of the profound ecological awareness that has characterized Islamic visual traditions
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline
A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea
A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture
The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of 55 buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day
A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the present