An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its historyThe roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity’s past. Through this unprecedented...

A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia’s greatest poets...

Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion. In 1988, a band of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergrads and dropouts began publishing a free weekly newspaper with no...

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval...

This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing...

The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help...

“Powerful.” —The New Yorker“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." —NPRNow in paperback, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New Statesmen Best Book of the Year, and Mother Jones favorite book of the year, Forbidden Notebook is a...

Turkey is a nation of contradictions and contrasts. Though considered democratic, the Erdogan government has increasingly begun to resemble a dictatorship, jailing it opponents and violently suppressing dissent. And though Turkey is notionally secular,...

John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques.At a time of debate about the future of “English” as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more...

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen—and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.Long before she...

This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to be American" (Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize winner)Includes more than 180 poets, spanning from the...

WINNER OF THE 2024 NEWBERY MEDALA New York Times bestseller and Today Show Summer PickA wild, lyrical, hilarious and beautiful story of a wild dog living and surviving in an urban park Johannes, a free dog, lives in a park hemmed in on three sides by...

Over the course of a thirty-eight-year friendship, painter Beauford Delaney and writer James Baldwin shared their private lives and shaped one another’s artistic values. Speculative Light brings together scholars, critics, and artists who analyze the...

An engaging and accessible introduction to the music, poetry, and lives of the medieval singer-songwriters.Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from powerful nobles to penniless...

“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” ―Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays our in our own time.In 1945, it was not inevitable that...

What would happen if I found myself in a black hole?Why is a heart not heart-shaped?Will I ever understand crypto-currency?Would Mr Darcy make a good life partner?What am I doing when I apricate?Is Everything Getting Worse?Dip into A Year of Living...

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics. Ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, and Frankenstein are read anew in the context of...

Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Part of Quindlen’s gift is that you don’t just read about these characters, you inhabit them. . . . Luminous with life, hope and the power of love.”—People (A Book of the Week Pick)“[A] quietly revelatory and gently gleaming...