"Exploring the deep-rooted links between British artists and France during the Modernist period The late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century was the 'golden age' of British artists living and working...

"A vivid account"--Frederick Studemann, Financial Times "A learned and affectionate study of hidden knowledge."--Kirkus Reviews "For that friend who wants to concoct the alchemical elixir of...

Around the world and across the ages, the greatest and most lasting buildings have tended to be made of stone. The eminent English stonemason Simon Warrack has sought to conserve and maintain many of...

Sinclair Lewis is said to have warned: "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." On January 6, 2021, Rep. Jared Huffman saw something chillingly close to...

"Long thought of as an impassable wilderness or cultural divide, the Pyrenees have been inhabited and shaped by human hands for centuries. Colin Duncan Taylor leads us through this storied terrain,...

Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Ian Brown―feature-writing journalist and author of the award-winning The Boy in the Moon―recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of...

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater...

Poetic, atmospheric, and inspired by a true story, this picture book about family, calling, and belonging tells the story of an Icelandic weather keeper in a world of ice, sea, and sky As the aurora...

Ogling, catcalling, wolf-whistling: such everyday intrusions from male strangers greeted American women from their first forays into urban space. Watching the Girls Go By is the first book-length...

“The coolest class on campus” – The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice.  How...

"The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger"-- Provided by...

"How We Disappear is a wide-ranging examination of the micro and m acro, toggling between storytelling from Mullaney's own life and his reflection on the science of entropy and the nature and history...

"From the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lords of Finance, another magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity through the prism of the famous banking family...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching”...

A NEW YORKER AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2026 “An illuminating book that examines where Mr. Musk came from and the episodes that shaped his worldview. In many ways it is the inverse of Walter...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports--seeking to...

A timely and measured examination of how US–Iran relations reached their current impasse and what it will take to move beyond years of distrust. The United States and Iran have been locked in a...

A fascinating exploration of the rich, varied cultural worlds shaped by three great European rivers: the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Po.Three of Europe’s greatest rivers share the same geological...

A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend. The Language of Flowers is a full-color guidebook to the...