From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a collection of essays examining cultur...

From one of the world's most beloved and outspoken public intellectuals comes an illuminating book on the nature of c...

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth ...

In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in wh...

Why do we need fiction? Why do books need  to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to cha...

Five Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The second annual Alchemy Lecture was presented in November 2023 ...

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at ...

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in October 2024 at Yo...

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling s...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by BloombergFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and...

An investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and j...

A wrenching portrait of the Russian sculptor and a tribute to the potential of political artJohn Berger explores the ...

A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art.Growing up in the suburbs—conf...

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyShort-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fic...

A reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing—on art, life, camp, ...

Family and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A NEW YORKER NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 ∙ A LITHUB FAVORITE BOOK OF 2025Fr...

Named a Best Canadian Poetry Book of 2025 by CBC BooksDaring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new colle...

A Time Must-Read Book of the YearWinner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionWinner of the 2025 Zora Award A...

For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers—as well as the legions of Virgin...

THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX ...

Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentiall...

This compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with important living artists around the world to humanize and demys...

A brave collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.It has been tw...

Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors“Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating gr...

A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other au...

A celebration of the rich twentieth and twenty-first-century tradition of screenprinting as a means of artistic expre...

An NYRB Classics Original  Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spir...

All about bilingualism, in science and in life: the benefits and controversies, the individual experience, and the so...

In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she ...

A deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fasc...

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny ThiefLife ...

A scintillating biographical study of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the b...

The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history – he was the f...

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?“Never hav...

WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE: from Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar...

A collection of essential writings from the influential German philosopherThis ideal introduction to the work of Karl...

A pioneering treatise on embracing cooperation and reciprocity to usher in a greener and more inclusive world, from t...

As new generations face new challenges and an ever more complex and uncertain world, Frankl’s classic work continues ...

The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, se...