Why do we need art?What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney knew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world.The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960’s...

The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second...

One part history book, one part art book, and one part fascinating memoir, this book is an overview of more than two centuries of tattoo history intermixed with an intimate look at the lives of tattoo artists, and the personal struggles and triumphs,...

Two leading public intellectuals and dear friends—one progressive, one conservative—explore What is Truth? and Why Does Truth Matter?In Truth Matters, Cornel West and Robert P. George address a range of social issues on which Americans today are bitterly...

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after...

Who works for the government and what do they do? A timely and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers.The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate...

The acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. In the...

"Clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest." ―Elissa Schappel, Vanity FairNick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a...

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...

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the worldProphecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world’s dominant currency have echoed for decades—and...

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...

How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North AmericaFrom the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate...

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 groundbreaking survey examining the interrelationship of poetry, calligraphy, and painting in Japanese art from the eleventh to the early twentieth centuryIn East Asian cultures, the integration of poetry, painting, and calligraphy, known as the “Three...

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of...

Today's Business Schools Were Designed For A World That No Longer Exists. That World Elevated The Primacy Of Shareholder Profits Above The Interests Of Employees, The Environment, And Society; Viewed Government As An Intrusion On The Free Market Rather...

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...

A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America’s first great...

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...