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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
An exemplary collection of work from one of the world’s leading scholars of intellectual history“Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this...
Stories for the Years
A masterful collection by a literary giant of the past century, rendered by one of our most esteemed Italian translators"A fine sampling of Pirandello’s world, convincingly translated by Jewiss, who...
An Aristocracy of Critics
Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press
The story behind the 1940s Commission on Freedom of the Press—groundbreaking then, timelier than ever now"Bates skillfully blends biography and intellectual history to provide a sense of how the clash of...
Drugs and Thugs
The History and Future of America’s War on Drugs
A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America’s domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall...
The Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century,...
Bald
35 Philosophical Short Cuts
"A genial exercise in public philosophy" (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"Simon Critchley is an international treasure—that rare and real philosopher who...
Providence and the Invention of American History
How providential history—the conviction that God is an active agent in human history—has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven...
The One and the Many
The Early History of the Qur'an
A revelatory account of early Islam’s great diversity by the world’s leading scholar of early Qur’anic manuscripts “There is no one better placed than François Déroche to write the history—and tell the story—of...
Cornwallis
Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a...
This Earthly Frame
The Making of American Secularism
An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “An essential book for understanding today’s culture wars. Sehat’s clear-eyed and elegant narrative will change how you...