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How to Read Literature
A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure—"English 101 in a book.” (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature...
Materialism
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating...
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the...
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Winner of the Mathematics Association of America's 2021 Euler Book Prize, this is an inclusive vision of mathematics—its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish...
Under the Red White and Blue
Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
An "astute, challenging, and far-reaching” look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive “I...
Please Talk to Me
Selected Stories
The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentina’s brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her...
The Story of Greece and Rome
The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the...
Why Architecture Matters
Now in paperback after five printings, a remarkable journey through the built world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic and "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" (Tracy Kidder)
Giovanni da Rimini
Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints
This monograph celebrates the National Gallery’s 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini’s Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints (c. 1300–1305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages,...
Gilgamesh
A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace “Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting,...