"The first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the pioneering political philosopher who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the approach to international relations-realism-that guided the United States...

"The "Mozart of mathematics" invites readers on a brief tour of six core ideas-numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, and dynamics-that capture the beauty and power of mathematical...

From the bestselling author of Chaos and The Information, a sweeping history of the instrument that created modern life.In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell spoke the words “Mr. Watson―come here―I want to...

"From the acclaimed author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters, a fierce, insistent, ecstatic investigation of the female voice, its power and vulnerabilities, and the ways women sing and speak their way...

In 1938, a year after his death in Spain at the age of thirty, Christopher Caudwell's Studies in a Dying Culture was published, to be followed eleven years later by a second volume, Further Studies...

A work powerful and pervading in its implications not only for metaphysics but also for art, political science, and the philosophy of history.

A bold meditation on endurance as interruption rather than progress, offering a radical rethinking of time, agency, and survival. On Persistence is an exploration into the elusive, unruly force of...

"This cahier unites two texts by celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, encouraging readers to experience them alongside and illuminating each other. 'Variations on the Right to Remain Silent' is an...

In this cahier the novelist, critic, translator, and editor of News from The Republic of Letters Keith Botsford presents the visual and literary work of the Polish painter and intellectual Józef...

A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year, this is an electrifying, “superb” (The Atlantic), and “entirely fresh” (Rolling Stone) journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the...

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 the tradition of Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, an evocatively written memoir of riding the depression roller coaster, choosing electroconvulsive therapy...

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...