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Critical Revolutionaries
Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at...
A Darkly Radiant Vision
The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK
The third and final volume in the first comprehensive history of Black social Christianity, by the “greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century” (Michael Eric Dyson) The Black social gospel is a...
Life
A Journey through Science and Politics
A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics Acclaimed as a public scientist and as a spokesperson on pressing environmental and equity...
London and the Seventeenth Century
The Making of the World's Greatest City
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it “Lively and arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal ceremonials of...
Radical Vision
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
A “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism—one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021"A devoted and deeply...
Exiled Shadow
A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic...
Lucian Freud
Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints
A record of every print Freud made, from early linocuts of the 1930s to his last etching published in 2007 This first volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné focuses on the artist’s prints. The only...
Ed Ruscha
An Archive of Projects
With cover artwork specially created by Ruscha, this book documents hundreds of projects and miscellaneous ephemera produced by the artist alongside his main oeuvre—including installations, films, painted book covers, contour gauge...
Scene of the Crime
A Novel
A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano In his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, Patrick Modiano recounted a...
Ignorance
A Global History
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed...