The Persecution of the Knights Templar by Alain Demurger
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A deeply researched account of the relentless persecution of the Knights Templar.
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Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior by Theophrastus
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This classical Greek text has been newly translated for a modern audience.
Read MoreThe Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
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A lovely and formidable English-language translation with detailed notes and essays by leading scholars.
Read MoreTop Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Piketty
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A study of the ways incomes fluctuate and the factors that determine what widens and narrows income inequality.
Read MorePandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard
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A deeply detailed panoramic of how fundamentally the war changed the world.
Read MoreThe Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot
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The Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
Read MoreFarewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff
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A brutally sad story, despite the multifaceted affections humans have had for horses over the centuries.
Read MorePantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jörg Rüpke
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The author closely follows the literary and archeological trail through the long history of the Republic.
Read MoreThe Invention of Ana by Mikkel Rosengaard
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This debut coming-of-age novel is a story composed of stories about stories.
Read MoreWonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani
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This translation of Ungläubiges Staunen: Über das Christentum is a collection of Kermani's vivid encounters with various works of Christianity-inspired artwork.
Read MoreRise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
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A picture of what decades of persecution will do to the moral fiber of a nation surrounded by enemies.
Read MoreConfessions by Saint Augustine
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Readers who recall the big, marvelous WW Norton edition of the complete works of Isaac Babel from over a decade ago will remember the vivid, otherworldly experience of reading it, and of course a large part of that experience was the handiwork of translator Peter Constantine, who has now, intriguingly, turned his hand to translating one of the strangest and most fundamental works of the Western canon, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Read MoreThe Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works
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Time has a funny way of turning scoundrels into icons.
Read MoreThe Great Apes: A Short History by Chris Herzfeld
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Christ Herzfeld's Petite histoire des grands singes appeared originally in 2012 and now has an English-language translation from Yale University Press by Kevin Frey that ably captures both Herzfeld's sweeping viewpoint and his sharply inquisitive tone; the book presents readers with a fast-paced and engaged history of humanity's historical and scientific encounters with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and chimpanzees and broadens whenever it can to larger issues of ethology and primatology.
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