Connection to the natural world, to community, and to ourselves is fundamental to our well-being. When we nurture these connections, we thrive, drawing strength from the web of interdependence that sustains life. In an increasingly fragmented and...

Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin--a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love...

A veteran illustrator imparts practical advice for the working creative with candid humorNew York Times and New Yorker illustrator Raymond Biesenger has over twenty years of experience as a self-employed creative. You might say he’s been through it all:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLocus Awards FinalistONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York magazine, Time, Kirkus, Literary Hub, GoodreadsAbsolution opens decades before Area X forms, with a science...

A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s SeattlePeople called it paradise, but baby, it wasn’t. What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your...

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after...

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal...

Can a game take care of us? And do we want it to? Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020--just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height, the game averaged...

A beautifully illustrated pocket-sized book featuring stunning and lifelike illustrations of animal life from prints and drawings in the Royal Collection. The perfect gift for fans of natural history and for readers of any age who love animals. ...

An unprecedented glimpse into the life and creative process of Barkley L. Hendricks. Barkley L. Hendricks: Piles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley L. Hendricks worked and lived. A collaboration between...

"Published posthumously in 1924, the novella Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) remains one of Herman Melville's most compelling works of fiction. The richness of its text has yielded myriad interpretations of its subtext, and this tale of a trial...

A collection of photographs created by David Katzenstein using the Duaflex camera, a successor to Kodak's famous Brownie camera. Brownie is a collection of photographs created by photographer David Katzenstein over ten years, from 1979-1989. With this...

"Descent is a modern fairy tale, revealing the raw vulnerability and unseen strength of forging an authentic life from within an unconventional body. Its edges draw tender shapes often made invisible by modern society. Within it, the reader is invited to...

A collection of poetry showcasing the diversity of subjects and forms in Yau's writing. This collection brings together work from half a century of writing by John Yau. Preoccupied with forms and musical structures, Yau's work includes sestinas,...

The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders--these are some of the features that divide the world on our maps and in our minds...

Drawing on the latest archaeological research, a brief and comprehensive guide to the ancient Ethiopian world. Ethiopia has captured the imagination of observers since ancient times. This book provides a fresh perspective on Ethiopian history up to...

In his extraordinary second collection, poet Jeffrey Pethybridge confronts the ethical disaster of the torture program that the United States used to advance the so-called global war on terror. The poems in Force Drift recall Gilles Deleuze's insight...

The life story of enigmatic North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, grandfather to Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung (1912-94) ruled his country, North Korea, for longer and shaped it more profoundly than almost any other modern leader. He created a unique and...

An unforgettable visual journey through the kingdom of fungi, both enigmatic and entrancing. Recyclers, creators of soil, enablers of life, and food for many--fungi are as dynamic as they are diverse. And, throughout her career, Alison Pouliot has...

Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's collections of the complete Greek tragedies,...