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International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires―especially in the British...

A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century--as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin's life and...

"A leading French feminist and writer, Groult drew wide attention with this sexually daring novel"—The NY TimesSalt on my Skin is widely regarded as Benoîte Groult’s most pioneering, best-loved book...

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben’s...

National Book Award Winner and New York Times Bestseller!Perfect for fans of NBC's "This Is Us," Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood...

For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives...

Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardA Boston...

An endearing board-book prequel to the laugh-out-loud Giraffe and Bird collection by the award-winning Rebecca BenderFor more than a decade Rebecca Bender's award-winning Giraffe and Bird books have...

A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALISTAn electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South...

Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize“This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis,...

A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins.The Mexican drug trade has...

From bestselling author Terri Libenson, this is a story about how there's more to everyone than meets the eye. Pride. Popularity . . . Poetry Middle school. Ruby and Mia are total opposites: Ruby...

A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best...

Recent controversies about Ronald Reagan's visit to the Bitburg military cemetery and revelations about Kurt Waldheim's past underscored the political problems inherent in Germany's military...

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educator―is fiercely curious.“I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American...

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19 *Named one of the Best Books of the Year --Bookforum Synopsis With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable...

Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.In Exit Interview, the...

This new book by historian Lauren Benton offers a novel five-century history of violence in European empires from 1400 to 1900. Her focus is the hidden logic of limited war that drove conflict across...

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture...