Updated for the first time in five years, this is the ultimate albums guide featuring insider knowledge and criticism from 90 internationally acclaimed music journalists.[Bokinfo]

"Friendship is timeless, as Frog and Toad prove in this parody that invites readers to follow along and laugh as these classic characters are reimagined throughout world history from the author of...

A portrait of China’s century through the story of the women in the author life, from the highly acclaimed novelist, twice shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Part memoir and part...

Unsettling and charged, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is equal parts psychological thriller and social satire that explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged family’s mundane cultural...

Award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim demystifies the inscrutable North Korean leaderA woman falls over a thin black line, slicing her in two—half becoming North Korea, the other half becoming...

"In the winding, perilous corridors of Jurgen Leitner's private library, you never know what you'll find. A starving cookbook. An ancient scroll that casts cool, predatory breezes. A cloth-bound...

"A graphic novel biography about one of America's most heinous race crimes, Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear follows an anonymous Black writer as he investigates Emmett's murder, confronting...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage • Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classic. Readers of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect...

"An illustrated collection of funny and poignant poems about cats"-- Provided by publisher.

"Guy de la Bédoyère draws on decades of research to provide a history of the ancient world through a personal selection of key figures. The story of any one of these lives is unique, from Egypt's...

A passionate tribute to literature and writing as beacons of clarity and truthCan a society compel its inhabitants to admit the evidence of facts? Can literature help us see the world as it really...

"Critical interpretation meets personal essay in this groundbreaking assessment of Donald Judd's sculptural work. The Sculpture of Donald Judd is the first chronological study of the artist's...

"In this vivid account, Ronald Hutton traces the history of eight key goddesses in ancient societies. Looking at the Sumerian Inanna, ancient Greek Aphrodite and Norse Freya, amongst others, Hutton...

"The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England-Shakespeare's "scepter'd isle," proud and apart, defined by royal spectacle and myth. Beneath this familiar narrative of...

"Packed with absolutely everything you need to be an effective and sustainable gardener, The Gardener's Bible is the ultimate guide for enthusiasts of all levels Stunning illustrations and...

The Wars of the Roses (1455–85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this...

One of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day “Perhaps no scholar is as well suited to serve as...

Slippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first...

Jews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States. When they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried but failed to deport them. As...

"Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as "inaccessible," "irrelevant," or...