388 results for '"Bespaloff, Rachel'

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon...

A personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading.Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one...

Long-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA New York Times Most Anticipated Book“Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time.” —Matthew Reisz, The...

As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, "Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house." Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of...

LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN―featuring spray-painted edges with a stenciled design, as well as gorgeously detailed endpapers. This breathtaking first edition is available for a limited time and while...

The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico borderLine in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American...

An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter...

In this moving memoir, an acclaimed poet and novelist gives words to unnamable kingdoms of grief and joy, turning an impossibly difficult chapter of her life into a remarkable story of sisterhood,...

A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids Where did the word "banana" originate?...

A glorious celebration of the life and works of Gustav Klimt.

Soon to be made into a major motion picture—Self Portrait—starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzieLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a "rich and thorny page turner" (Los...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for...

A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity.Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their...