One of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 | A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024“Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.” —Louis Menand, The New Yorker“Convincing, idiosyncratic...

A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Perón's Argentina,"the Ratline"—from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street."Hypnotic,...

Set amongst the glittering backdrop of London's iconic Savoy hotel, a young woman is forced to confront her troubled past as she uncovers the story of the hotel's first female bartender who has been erased from the history books--"an exhilarating, tender...

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America’s changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major...

A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene--the killing age. We are used to speaking of the Anthropocene and the outsized impact humans...

This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career. Seamus Heaney's voice is like no other—"by turns mythological and journalistic,...

* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders,...

“Not to be missed.”—Booklist “A moody, atmospheric, and singular novel which navigates corners of American history through the complicated territory of horror, the monstrous, and the heroic.”—Kelly Link, best-selling author of The Book of LoveAn...

A carefully curated tour of 150 unique libraries around the world. Step inside libraries filled with precious books and architectural wonders.Discover the most enchanting libraries around the world in 150 Libraries You Need to Visit Before You Die. This...

Mamadou Diouf unearths the intellectual and cultural traditions that have long defined Africa, proving that history was never just written about Africa, but also by it. For too long, Africa has been framed as an afterthought in world history--a...

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums’ treasures were...

For four decades, artist, writer, curator, and teacher Nayland Blake has been at the center of discussions of queer aesthetics and contemporary art. Their work has examined racial hybridity, the ins and outs of the BDSM world, and the importance of...

“I can’t imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered.” —Mel Robbins “A MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. I was riveted as if to a thriller and touched/moved/inspired...

Underlying Julia Kristeva's Nations Without Nationalism is the idea that otherness--whether it be ethnic, religious, social, or political--needs to be understood and accepted in order to guarantee social harmony. This book is an impassioned plea for...

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." --Albert Einstein Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering the complex...

A scathing exposé of the hidden impact of America's ultra wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape--as well as a path toward a more equitable future "The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide...