Also a poet

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for...

Anne boleyn & elizabeth i

Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth Much of the fascination with Britain’s legendary Tudors centers around the dramas sur...

Disorientation

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Bestselling Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings a fresh point of view and new insights to the urgent conversation on race and racism in these illuminating essays born from his own experience as a Black man in the world. With that one eloquen...

Havel: a life

Václav Havel was one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century: iconoclast and intellectual, renowned artist turned political dissident, president of a united and then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist. Written by Michael Zantovsky—Havel’s former press secretary, ad...

How isn’t it going?

From France’s leading Jewish intellectual, an intimate yet universal meditation on October 7, its legacy, and the way forward  Devastated by the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Delphine Horvilleur sees her world shatter. As a rabbi dedicated to supporting and alleviating the suf...

In the margins

A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail) Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these...

Living with our dead

A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France’s most prominent female rabbi and a leading intellectual.  The New York Times describes Delphine Ho...

Losing helen

Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies...

Manson in his own words

“Compulsively readable . . . Manson can’t ever succeed in being paroled out of that cell, not as long as people with any sense at all can read this book.”—William S. Burroughs

Mary shelley

One equal music

“My favorite nonfiction book of the past 25 years... humane and angry and subtle and heartbreaking. I give it to people all the time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Unrelenting, mesmerizing, and beautifully written… Transformative.” Foreword Reviews Published in hardcover as Disturbance (20...

Saint joan of arc

Slow down or die

A Publishers Weekly Most Ancitipated Book of Spring 2025 A bold call to abandon the myth of endless economic growth and embrace a sustainable, just, and thriving future.  ★ “Blistering debut... An urgent and elegant challenge to the status quo.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the most ...

The comedians

Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK—comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century’s worth o...

The deserter's tale

The fire

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A powerful, unflinching portrait of a generation fighting for change in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine  “Sala’s dispatches are as immersive and original as they are anthropologically probing... [They] come alive in ways that ordinary newspaper journalism rarely do...

The luckiest thirteen

A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men’s lives.The English port city of Hull was home to ‘three day millionaires’ – trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who knew if the next trip would be their last?...

The negroes send their love

An extraordinary new work, epic in scale and lyrical in flight, by the award-winning author of Dangerous Goods and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. “How big is a home?” “What is space without reaching?” “You ever think about being remembered?”Posing questions that belie their simplicity, Sean Hill’...

The passenger: thailand

Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.  IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad • The Country of Spirits by Emma Larkin • Monarchy Under Attack by Claudio Sopranzetti • plus: soft po...

Vivien

“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part non-conformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”—Vivien LeighWhen Vivien Leigh died in 19...

When the world breaks open

In this poignant and unabashed self-examination, Seema Reza uncovers the lessons she learned through motherhood and a failed marriage, and how she used her discoveries to make a meaningful difference in the world.