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Folk Music
A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs “The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . ....
The Newspaper Axis
Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II “A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable....
About The Rose
Creation and Community in Jay DeFeo's Circle
A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo’s uniquely generative work of art Through deep archival research and nuanced analysis, Elizabeth Ferrell examines the creative...
Bright Star, Green Light
The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
This immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures, John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, “unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature” (Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal)...
Crassus
The First Tycoon
The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory “A perfectly paced biography.”—Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius...
Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—
Kashmir at the Crossroads
Inside a 21st-Century Conflict
An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict—from 1947 to the present The India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world’s incendiary conflicts. Since 1990, at least 60,000...
The Great Mongol Shahnama
A detailed study of the Great Mongol Shahnama, considered to be the greatest of all Persian illustrated manuscriptsThe Great Mongol Shahnama is widely considered to be the definitive version of...
The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art
Tracing the currents of change that unite the visual and material culture of the Islamic world across space and time The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social,...
Ogata Korin
Art in Early Modern Japan
A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo period Best known for his paintings Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms, Ogata Korin (1658–1716) was a highly...
