The Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
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A smart analysis of the growing power of the US Presidency - and a call to limit that power.
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Men of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance”
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Journalist Philippe Lançon’s account of putting his life back together from the inside out.
Read MoreThe Reckoning by MJ Trow
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In the latest exciting MJ Trow murder mystery, the playwright Christopher Marlowe has an appointment in Deptford …
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Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.
Read MoreWhat It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
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David Allen Sibley’s latest bird book is a beautifully-illustrated oversized volume on the behavior of a few dozen well-known species.
Read MoreCapital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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Is famous economist Thomas Piketty right about inequality? David Murphy dissects.
Read MoreWhat Is the Grass by Mark Doty
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A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
Read MoreThe Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen
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A sumptuous historical novel about the notorious Coco Chanel.
Read MoreAlien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand
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What can Earth’s oceans teach us about life on other worlds?
Read MorePeterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition)
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The legendary Peterson field guide gets a long-awaited new edition.
Read MoreCalder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl
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The second volume in Jed Perl’s indispensable biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreFrom 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
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The first volume of Jed Perl’s landmark biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreThe Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
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The least sympathetic Bennet girl from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” takes center stage in Janice Hadlow’s debut novel.
Read MoreBroken by Don Winslow
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The latest from the great novelist Don Winslow is a collection of short stories in a wonderfully different register.
Read MoreThese Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
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A new biography of Emily Dickinson—told in ten episodes which “tell it slant.”
Read MoreThey Knew They Were Pilgrims by John G. Turner
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A new account of the trials, triumphs, and crimes of the Plymouth Plantation founders.
Read MoreSquare Haunting by Francesca Wade
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At different times and in different phases of their careers, five women made the same square in London their home - a fascinating new book looks at their stories.
Read MoreMuhammad and the Empires of Faith by Sean Anthony
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An innovative inquiry into how we know what we know about the birth of Islam.
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