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What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations." This is the argument of Through Other Continents, Wai Chee Dimock's sustained...

Poet and novelist Pablo Medina's Cubop City Blues fuses raw, passionate language and elegant lyricism to breathe life into a musically disguised New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and...

A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine.Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that...

A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and...

HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD GLOBALLYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"A love letter to Bombay told through food and stories, including their legendary black daal" -Yotam OttolenghiAt long last, Dishoom...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearColette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the...

The star of Julián Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return—and finds a new friend—at a wedding to be remembered. Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding...

John Cage's name has long been well known and his influence widely acknowledged. Yet his music is comparatively unexplored and his ideas have often been misrepresented. This book is the first serious...

It has long been argued that Baldwin's second government, especially the Foreign Office led by Austen Chamberlain, was to blame for the deterioration in Anglo-American relations in 1927-9. This book...

Hitty is a doll of great charm and character. It is indeed a privilege to publish her memoirs, which, besides being full of the most thrilling adventures on land and sea, also reveal her delightful...

In early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station. Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to...

Can Elephant hold her pee until the game is over? Did Toucan go to the bathroom before he left his house? It's Koala's birthday party and everyone is having a great time. But some of the guests are...

This volume includes selections from the works of Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. Through these works and those of other early Christian thinkers, this book surveys the...

Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo...

"A funny space adventure that spoofs Star Wars while providing an easy-to-read story." —BooklistIt's been a long trip, and Commander Toad and the crew of the Star Warts are bored. They've played all...

If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill -- if you imagine that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate -- if you believe that Newtonian mechanics will fix...

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My...

Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the...

A captivating history of London as told through objects recovered from the muddy banks of the Thames and the lives of the people who owned themMudlark’d combines insights from two hundred rare...

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs "A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal...