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The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse,...

A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, ficti...

A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors ...

A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported...

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the res...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION, BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE, AND THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD • A BOOKLIST BEST BO...

In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ...

We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs—Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos—are seduced by the c...

Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeli...

One of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century—Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is ...

From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration and explanation of mathematical concepts from algebra to zero in ea...

America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it...

Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to th...

WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET KEANEThe full screenplay by award-winning Ed Wood writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for acclaimed direc...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern class...

A reevaluation of Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860's and his removal from office in 1890.A(la...

An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we are  ...

At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s...

In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the e...

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this...

This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of th...

An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.A revoluti...

   From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fou...