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Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art throughout 2027 with this elegant, cloth-spine weekly planner filled with 56 exquisite treasures from the Met’s world-renowned collection.With this gorgeous...

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's distinctive system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is...

A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistShows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from:...

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth“[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the...

What does it mean to call a place home?From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family storyOn her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR...

Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George...

A showcase of the extraordinary career America’s first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature: “It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as...

In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" (San Francisco Chronicle) story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved...

The bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis—essential reading in the era of #MeToo.   “A major work of history...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s VultureIntroduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry...

"The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. It is also a tragic and absorbing drama that forms part of our own...

“Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life.”—Library Journal“Bierend writes with sensual verve and specificity, enthusiasm,...

A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St...

The first major biography of the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind―illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawingsAs the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy...

How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of Matisse, de Kooning,...

Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the...