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A gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women. Learn More

In The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges, editors Daniel Balderston and Nora Benedict, along with a team of international scholars, contextualize Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century readers and critics. Learn More

From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution by ferrying them just a few at a time to sanctuary in Sweden. Learn More

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions. Learn More

A breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy.
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A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's influential sister-in-law. Learn More

A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialism. Learn More

The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of the New Yorker's most acclaimed storytellers. Learn More

The timely and revelatory exploration of the pioneering women who changed the insulated world of international espionage—from the barrier-crashing challenges of the 1960s to the present day reckoning—told through the eyes of a former intelligence operative herself. Learn More

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An empowering journey into the overstory with the arborists and forest experts safeguarding our iconic trees. Learn More

Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Learn More

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Gangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys—the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne—who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in American crime. Learn More

Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses—from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Learn More

Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, an intimate and richly-told portrait of the iconic actor and writer Robert Shaw, from his portrayal of the legendary shark hunter Captain Quint and beyond, written lovingly but honestly by his nephew. Learn More

In this riveting cultural biography, New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's influence through the lens of American mythmaking. Learn More

An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld. Learn More

In his latest book, historian and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer shows that there is no agreement in the earliest Islamic sources about the most fundamental details of Muhammad's life. Learn More

A revelatory history of the vast tequila empire born from the fires of the Mexican Revolution. Learn More

A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. Learn More

Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison years of civil rights icon Malcolm X. Learn More