Challenging decades of scholarship and Supreme Court jurisprudence, newly discovered historical documents reveal that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause was meant to protect only the freedom...

From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer comes a remarkable new look at the only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. The conventional wisdom is that...

A collection of letters by one of the greatest writers of the last hundred years, Letters from Julio spans nearly three decades of Cortázar's life. "He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who...

"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 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 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...

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...

"An accessible primer on aesthetics in art and everyday life, written by artist and scholar Walead Beshty. In this general guide to the foundations of aesthetics, Walead Beshty introduces the...

This book features 100s of unique and visually stunning record sleeve artworks from one of the most-iconic record companies in the world - Folkways Records. 'I envisioned myself recording for...

One of the foremost literary bestsellers of our time, now in a 50th-anniversary edition featuring a new foreword by psychoanalyst and New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Amy Bloom A...

A Belletrist Book Club Pick "Riveting . . . Lightbreakers is a marvel. . . propulsive and unforgettable."-Washington Post "You will love this genre-busting book. . . A beautiful meditation of grief,...

"A marvel."-People "Blisteringly good... Her questions will burn themselves into your heart." -The Guardian "I loved this book so much. Highly recommend." -Joumana Khatib, New York Times "A...

"From New York Times bestselling historian Dan Jones, a grand and sweeping exploration of the world's most awe-inspiring buildings, told through the lives of the people that fought, prayed, survived,...

"Robert Wilson was a driving force in the avant-garde art and theatre worlds for half a century. The Space Behind the Face, written in collaboration with his friend and author Keith McDermott, charts...

"Reclaim your attention, make sense of complexity, and build a mind you can rely on with this radical guide to thinking for yourself in a world that tries to think on your behalf-the first English...

An epic and engrossing debut novel about identical twin brothers, the woman they both love, and the secrets at the heart of the beautiful, rugged Maine island they call home The McCauleys have...

A LUCID, BALANCED INTRODUCTION TO NIETZSCHE'S LIFE AND THOUGHT Translated into English for the first time, Mazzino Montinari's classic introduction to Nietzsche is remarkable for its clarity,...

A magisterial collection of essays on what art tells us about ourselves, and the worldThe Sense of Sight is about our deeply political and human engagement with the visual world. Berger encourages us...

John Berger's intimate meditations on what is past, passing, and to come Beginning each essay with an image, Keeping a Rendezvous examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into...