LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata, India,...

This inaugural edition of what will be a yearly collection offers a fascinating variety of essays and crime reporting, taken from regional, national, and international publications. The stories range from reports of homicide at a Toronto massage parlor...

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary...

We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, you can find...

Anthony Kennedy’s journey from an idyllic youth in 1940s Sacramento to service on the highest courts in America.Anthony Kennedy did not take the usual path to a seat on the Supreme Court. Often, the phrase “constitutional lawyer” brings to mind graduates...

Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York Times Books Review, TIME, Washington Post, Associated Press, Town & Country, New York Post, and moreFrom the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a...

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with "curiosity and humor" in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light (Shannon...

Why have foreigners over the centuries kept wanting to own Greenland? The fascinating, calamitous story of the many who’ve tried . . . and uniformly failed . . .An indispensable guide to Greenland—why it matters, and how it could become the next global...

An electrifying memoir about the demise of a singular family—a stunning new book by Gabrielle Hamilton, author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter“You won’t be able to put down Gabrielle Hamilton’s story of...

A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar®-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son...

"Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States. On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection. The presidential election...

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Awards in Nonfiction "An immersive, devastating look at foster children's lives." (Seattle Times) A compelling exploration of the broken American foster care system, told through the stories of six former foster...

“Lockwood has written a roving chronicle of the madness of illness and the frightening porousness of what it means to be yourself in the hilariously profound way that only she could.” – Vulture“Reliably brilliant.” – The Washington...

A longtime educator explores how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are. Black history is under attack from powerful forces that seek to excise it from classrooms, libraries, and...

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account...

A New York Times Notable Book A shocking and assiduously reported biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker whose techno-authoritarian worldview is coming to dominate...

"Published posthumously in 1924, the novella Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) remains one of Herman Melville's most compelling works of fiction. The richness of its text has yielded myriad interpretations of its subtext, and this tale of a trial...

"From global navigation to natal charts and from memory palaces to particle accelerators, a fascinating account of humanity's attempts to imagine new spaces. How do you conceive of space? To start, reflect of how many spatial terms appear in your...

The story of the radical conservative intellectual movement shaping Donald Trump’s agenda—and how it threatens American freedoms, values, and democracyDonald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for...

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our...