“Wise and illuminating...Merrill’s treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful.” —Cass R. Sunstein, New York Review of Books“Merrill is one of the brightest and best scholars of administrative...

Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church HistoryS-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual HistoryMerle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians“A fascinating book…Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and...

“The best kind of scholarship—deeply researched and immensely useful. Wherever you stand on issues of free speech and academic freedom, you will learn from this book.” —Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and author of Safe Enough SpacesA...

“An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures.” ―Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensThe ancient inheritance that made us who we are―and is now driving us...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LibraryReads PickA hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker.Columnist Anna Appleby has left her love life behind after a painful divorce. Who needs a man when she...

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS REVIEWSThe New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are...

“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” —The New StatesmanA sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it, and an urgent warning of...

Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in...

A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR"Short, strange, spiky and sublime.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times“Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous.” —Wall Street JournalFrom the visionary author of Sudden...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates AwardLonglisted for the Carol Shields PrizeLonglisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeNAMED A BEST...

“Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family.”—TIMEIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to...

An NPR Best Book of 2023“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.” —The Washington Post“The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the religious, the world...

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done beforeWerner Herzog was born in September 1942 in...

The instant New York Times bestseller 2025 James Beard Foundation Award NomineeNamed a Best Cookbook of 2024 by NPR, VegNews, and The Portland Press Herald A groundbreaking and comprehensive “vegan flavor bible”—with 150 must-make recipes—from the wildly...

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.   Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times,...

Surviving Prison As An Innocent Person Is A Surreal Nightmare No One Wants To Think About. But It Can Happen To You. Justin Brooks Has Spent His Career Freeing Innocent People From Prison. With You Might Go To Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, He...

Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communitiesIn Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories...