A “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies themWhere should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against himA BEST BOOK OF...

The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this sharp and touching novel about growing up at the intersection of ambition and assimilation.Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan grew up...

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in...

A New York Times Bestseller“This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times“The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters...

In How Can I Help, Doug Tallamy--a New York Times bestselling author and the cofounder of the nonprofit Homegrown National Park--gives his expert answers to questions commonly asked over the course of his career as an environmental advocate. This...

From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,a personal and provocative exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connectionWhen it was released to the...

An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalistOne day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times,...

"It was the election America dreaded--a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history...

Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and maleBeing human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more...

One of the world's leading Egyptologists tells the rich and fascinating story of ancient Egypt's last dynasty.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet...

An adventurous collection that examines how the design field has consistently failed to attract and support Black professionals—and how to create an anti-racist, pro-Black design industry instead.An Anthology of Blackness examines the intersection of...

“Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty of food for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Ball’s marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . ...

An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawning of a new world—a halcyon age of art, prosperity, and...

This groundbreaking volume unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art, thereby advocating for the botanical world’s legitimate place in art history.Desired for their aesthetic beauty, sought after for their medicinal properties,...

Early Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuous period for the nation and himself. The stories...

What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong?In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades...

Jen Has Dumped Andy, And He's Handling The Breakup In Exactly The Way All His Friends And Family Might Have Expected: Very, Very Badly. Crashing At His Mother's House And Obsessively Photographing His Hairline, Andy Embraces The Rites And Rituals Of...