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Boston's Apollo
Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
The story of the extraordinary collaboration behind one of John Singer Sargent’s renowned late masterpieces In 1916, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) met Thomas Eugene McKeller (1890–1962), a young African...
The Faiths of Others
A History of Interreligious Dialogue
The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosity “[A] fast-paced history of interreligious dialogue . . . For those new to the field or...
Anne Brigman
The Photographer of Enchantment
The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminism and pictorialist images distanced her from the mainstream In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869–1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the...
Empire of Silver
A New Monetary History of China
A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability"A wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of...
Thomas Jefferson
A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life “Kidd’s biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson’s religious and moral life available, and certainly it is...
Of Solids and Surds
Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction “Delany’s prismatic output is among the most...
My Soul Is a Witness
The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South...
Principles and Agents
The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition
A new history of the abolition of the British slave trade “Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as...
Afterlives
Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it By the end of World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books had...
Titian
Love, Desire, Death
A New York Times best art book of 2021 Titian (active 1506–1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II of Spain, celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses, and mortals. Depicting...