“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ―Minjie Chen, Los Angeles Review of BooksA Penguin ClassicBefore there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King. The title character, also known as Sun...

Verne’s timeless underwater adventure story, now available in a new translation as a Penguin Classics black spine. In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious...

“A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine)   24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding...

With the original remaining copies destroyed in a 1982 arson fire at the Fag Rag/Good Gay Poets offices, a beloved cult classic returns to print for the first time in five decades Already known as a "poet's poet," John Wieners(1934-2002) moved to...

How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside DarwinIn this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive...

A beautiful, full-color dive into the history and future of Studio Ghibli, Japan's preeminent animation house. In-depth looks at every one of their 26 feature films - including the latest, The Boy and the Heron - means there's something for everyone,...

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights...

"A daily dose of joy and wisdom. Just what we need to chase the gloom away!" - OLIVIA COLMANHave you ever wondered... Why is a heart not heart-shaped?What exactly is cryptocurrency?Where is the world's smallest sea?What would happen if I found myself in...

For the fifth anniversary of American Compass, the conservative think tank hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "the forefront of rethinking traditional conservative economic ideas," comes a collection of its best, most influential writing.American...

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves--...

Jeff Dolven's second collection of poems makes use of grammatical errors to imagine new poetic worlds.The poems in *A NEW ENGLISH GRAMMAR begin from the bad sentences in traditional grammar, the ones marked with an asterisk in the handbooks. They are...

Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own “poem-life.” Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these...

Since the Global Financial Crisis, a surge of interest in the use of finance as a tool to address social and economic problems suggests the potential for a generational shift in how the finance industry operates and is perceived. J. C. de Swaan seeks to...

This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflict between a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and his politically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorable scenes and speeches, this lyrical history moves from a...

Based on the hit novel, this series follows a chilling mystery about a house designed for murder--which is now a live-action movie! I've always had a fascination with the occult; you might even call it my specialty. I've been brought in as a consultant...

For nearly two thousand years, Hebrew belonged to the realm of the sacred. A written liturgical language used primarily by rabbis and scholars, it was not spoken in everyday contexts. A revival process in the late nineteenth century brought Hebrew back...

An immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau's final project--a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Part blueprint for a major new work, part scientific...

Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales—watching Proust...

"Tender, heartfelt, and all too real (in the best way!)." --Natalie Sue, author of I Hope This Finds You Well A touching and deeply funny debut about starting over sober only to discover life's biggest messes are still waiting right where you left them...

A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime...