A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously? That question prompted Seneca, the great Stoic...

“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorThis...

For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain...

Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical 2018 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as...

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel. “Bad Nature shows we’re getting selfishness all wrong. As...

Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.They worked in...

A New York Times Book Review Most Anticipated Book of the Spring A Time Best Book of the Month A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Must-Read: The Atlantic and The Week "Nettie Jones's voice is astonishing. It leaps off the page like a...

The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.Since the Great Recession, recent college grads have confronted an alarming reality: the economic engine that propelled earlier generations into the...

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamics A white man hosts a wedding...

An epic novel of postwar Japan—a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling—by the author of Territory of Light. Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage...

Named one of the best books of spring by Harper's BAZAAR and one of the best of the year by The Economist! A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in Nineties Dublin - perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The...

A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris. When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to the young...

Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do—and fail to do—about actually getting them?In The Life You Want, Adam Phillips uses...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Lucy Sante (I Heard Her Call My Name), a new collection of essays and reflections, mixing memoir with incisive writing about photography, music, literature, and film. Here she learns to dance by watching Soul Train, dissects...

How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political power Across history, slavery has been central to political power. By the nineteenth century, African rulers dominated the slave trade with the European and Islamic worlds...

“Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars . . . but...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites,...

"You know how, very occasionally in your life, there's a 'before and after' reading experience? Well, reading War and Peace with Tolstoy Together has been that for me--a milestone not just in reading but in living."--Michael LanganFrom the acclaimed...

The Declaration Of Independence Depicted Native Americans As Bloodthirsty Savages, And From Its Founding The United States Aimed To Expand Westward By Seizing Indigenous Lands. While White Settlers Saw These Conquests As Victories For 'true Religion,'...

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at...