From one of the most prominent post-Cold War geopolitics experts and “a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns” (The Wall Street Journal), a probing and insight-filled look at the China experts...

In this first-ever collection of nonfiction by John Edgar Wideman, a "towering figure in American literature" (The Nation), five decades of cultural and literary criticism paint a vivid portrait of...

"Explains how interconnected race and gender ideologies underlie grievance politics on the Right and reveals how both are transforming American politics, policy, and law. In The Battle for White Male...

A migratory journey through the vast contributions of geese to human culture. Long dismissed as the dull cousin of ducks and swans, the goose proves to be a bird of astonishing significance. From...

A fresh introduction to the life and art of the sixteenth-century Italian painter.Impossible Nature offers a reassessment of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Lombard painter whose fantastical composite heads...

"In the first half of the twentieth century, the tremendous energy locked up in the nuclei of atoms was discovered and then liberated, bringing the promise of utopia and the threat of apocalypse. The...

"An insightful reconsideration of our historical moment seen through the lens of madness. In Seeing Through Madness, W. J. T. Mitchell pursues the idea of "putting madness to work" by transforming it...

A compelling and original cultural history of shapeshifters. There is something about a shapeshifter―a person who can transform into an animal―that captures our imagination; that causes us to want...

Offering fresh botanical insight, charm, and humor, the first memoir dedicated to a plant genus.    A dying hybrid oak in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens sets off on an imaginative search for its...

An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm. Janet Malcom was a New Yorker journalist and titan of American letters...

A landmark artist biography that takes us behind the Ben-Day dots and into the invention of Pop When Roy Lichtenstein painted his breakthrough canvas Look Mickey in 1961―an image of Donald Duck and...

Covert Joy is an electric volume starring such landmark Clarice Lispector stories as "The Smallest Woman in the World," "Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken." As expressed in the...

"Why have so many philosophers risked their lives for their vocation? Why have reigning authoritarian rulers been so keen to silence them? This book frames the philosophical search for wisdom as part...

Inflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. What's more, tariffs and trade wars threaten to...

"An inviting tour of modern macroeconomics-culminating in HANK, a modern framework that will transform the way we understand our economy and the policies that shape it. Macroeconomics and...

"A celebrated scholar's profound examination of sculpture, making, and the nature of humanity. What is sculpture? In this elegant volume, Anne Middleton Wagner delves into that essential question,...

"This book examines the legal obligations of the U.S. government to its military personnel. It asks why courts and the public are so reluctant to recognize soldiers as rights holders, and it urges...