The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is
A comprehensive celebration of the fashions of one of the world’s most revered designers. On the eve of the company’s fortieth anniversary, this lavish book focuses upon the key creations and importan
Headbangers is a collection of Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn’s intimate portraits of the beauty and chaos of heavy metal rockers in the throes of musical ecstasy taken at European metal festivals
Moving memoir and insightful examination of transgender politicsTRANS is the story of growing up, of finding an identity, and about the politics of gender. In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques un
Welcome to the world of the Genshiken, home of the true otaku—the Japanese term for ubergeek. This is the story of a group of friends who are members of the most hard-core anime and manga fan club in
From one of our foremost architectural writers: an engaging, brilliant exploration of the life and work of the most famous architect of our time, and one of the few architects ever to be widely admire
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline
For fans of the Grijpstra and de Gier investigations, a collection of 13 short stories spanning two decades in the lives of van de Wetering's Amsterdam CopsAmsterdam isn’t exactly a hotbed of violent
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time.In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great a
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYCompared by critics to Kafka, Joyce, and Musil, H. G. Adler is becoming recognized as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century ficti
Montpellier in 1566 is one of the greatest seats of learning of the age, a cradle of Renaissance humanism. But even this proud city of philosophers is not safe from the menaces that endanger the peace
This republication of a long out-of-print collection of essays, first published in 1979, focuses on the elusive concept of “value.” The field of study surrounding the theory of value remains comparati
Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 to the completion of theGrundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an o
Yalo propels us into a skewed universe of brutal misunderstanding, of love and alienation, of self-discovery and luminous transcendence. At the center of the vortex stands Yalo, a young man drifting b
Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aestheti
A groundbreaking study of the lost tradition of Tibetan Zen containing the first translations of key texts from one thousand years ago.Banned in Tibet, forgotten in China, the Tibetan tradition of Zen
From Edgar Award winner Stefanie Pintoff comes the start of an electrifying new thriller series featuring Eve Rossi, head of a secret division of the FBI—one made up of ex-convicts with extraordinary
Time to Stand Up retells the story of the historical Buddha, one of the greatest sacred activists of all time, as a practical human being whose teachings of freedom from suffering are more relevant th
The fourth volume of the Gospel Harmonies, The Garden of Lost and Found tells the story of James Ramsay, a 21-year-old man who discovers, upon the death of his estranged mother, that he’s inherited a
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE ‧ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ‧ NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNEWSDAYNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post ‧ San Francisco
On the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Wallace Stevens—a new edition of hisCollected Poems, containing scores of corrections based on original editions and manuscripts.The Collected Poems is the
A gripping tale of police brutality, investigating the cover-up of a deadly NOLA cops’ shooting of six unarmed civilians, published on the tenth anniversary of KatrinaSix days after Hurricane Katrina’
From one of the most significant political theorists of the twentieth century—a collection of essays, lectures, speeches, reviews, and interviews published in the last twenty years of her life, but ne
The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, ne Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoirPim
A collection of teachings on how to correctly practice the view and meditation of Dzogchen by one of its most accomplished and beloved masters of the twentieth century. Tibetan Buddhist master Nyosh
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the NortheastWinner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author
The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from presumed extinctionRare Birds is a tale of obsession, of hope, of fighting for redemption
Voltaire, the pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of
This is the first fully-illustrated biography of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, famous for his pioneering exploration of dreams, the unconscious, and spirituality. Carl Jung continu
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century fe
Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking wha
Addresses many of the topics affecting the world including war, poverty, the trend of drug and alcohol abuse, the distorting influence of the media, the dangerous pursuit of wealth and the importance
THE (BRAZENLY MADE-UP) SCIENCE OF TITANWORLD!Tokyo University dropout Rikao Yanagita, head of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Science Research Institute and author of dozens of bestselling books on the science of
A genuine literary event—an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all timeOver the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more
“A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.”—The New YorkerHe was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed.The twenty-first
In a handful of years between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern music unfolded in a series of relative
Includes a new Afterword by the authorsOne of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an acti
Set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 1970s, Dylan Landis, winner of a 2014 O. Henry Prize (for "Trust," a section of this novel) weaves a powerful story of girlhood, friendsh
More than ten years in the making, this volume of 87 new poems by Steve Luttrell, former poet laureate of Portland, Maine, conjures the beauty of the New England Coast and the enduring power of nature
