From beloved Japanese author Shu¯saku Endo¯, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing
A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes
An exploration of how the biblical heroine Queen Esther, a symbol of resilience and a figure of immense popularity, was portrayed in seventeenth-century Dutch art
The twentieth-anniversary edition of Crush, the passionate and influential poetry collection by Richard Siken
Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, this book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art
A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
Drawing on the riches of the Western tradition, Anthony T. Kronman defends a humane conservativism for our enlightened age
A leading legal scholar asks a fundamental question: Do we need a theory of constitutional interpretation?
A psychoanalyst’s sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients
How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns of corporeal mutilation of Indian peoples in the Americas
A groundbreaking study of textiles as transcultural objects in the Qing court that provides a new understanding of the interconnectedness of the early modern world
An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell