In Dublin in 1985, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Her obsessive longing for him leads to marriage, bereavement and, eventually, to a crushing betrayal. When Anna meets a kindhearted Muslim man, she...

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capitalist, an Iranian tycoon, and a villainous,...

The story of photographer Edward Steichen's deep connections to the natural world, from how it influenced his artistic practice to his award-winning garden In a 1937 article titled "Millions of Gardeners," Life magazine published "Mr. Steichen . . ...

Philip Schultz is famous for his empathetic explorations of male shortcomings, primarily those of his late father. Enormous Morning, his incisive new volume, reflects on the sacrifices of women in their roles as mothers, wives, and friends, including...

An acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials—and emerged as a...

We imagine the plantation--the big house, the porticos, the slave quarters, the vast cotton fields--as situated firmly in the dismal American past. Yet as historian Daniel Rood shows in In the Shadow the Great House, the plantation is still very much...

Indigenous Citizens chronicles Native Americans' extraordinary resilience and resistance to colonialism, coercive assimilation programs such as Indian Boarding Schools, and white Americans' backlash against their treaty rights, from the American...

Today, virtually the entire world lives under the economic system called capitalism, and most people alive have never known another. But as the economic historian Trevor Jackson argues in this powerful book, It wasn't always capitalism, it didn't have to...

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, ultimately...

"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being,...

A philosopher journeys back to the mystics to learn how to live with uncertainty in the twenty-first century How do we live when we don't know what to believe, or who to believe, or how we could even know? In this deeply felt book, philosopher James K...

A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed,...

In On the Record: Music That Changed America, Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Billie Holiday's haunting "Strange Fruit" to Paul Simon's...

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History. A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century,...

For children, a good divorce is better than a bad marriage, but that doesn't make the split any easier. Legal decisions have emotional consequences for kids and parents alike. Synthesizing more than 30 years of clinical experience, numerous case studies,...

A comprehensive introduction to the natural history of ponds, small lakes, and other quiet or still bodies of water in the eastern United States This richly illustrated guide introduces readers to the biology and structure of freshwater ponds, smaller...

Salt lakes are some of the world's most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of them--from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea--are drying up, a harbinger of dust storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health. In this dazzling love letter to...

Bridging her passion for illustration with her vocation as a doctor, Grace Farris has built a devoted audience for her comics storytelling. In the tradition of physician-memoirs by Suzanne Koven, Sandeep Jauhar, and Henry Marsh, See One, Do One, Teach...

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources of the Leninist surveillance state.China watchers long argued...