\nA timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more…

\nA portrait of one of the ancient world\'s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again\n…

\nAn exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the…

\nThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words\n…

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\nA revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux\n…

From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the…

The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer…

\nA riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial \"Father of the Nuclear Navy\"\n…

\nAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist\n…

\nA revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage\n…

\nA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch\n…

\nAward-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a…

Ben Hecht\'s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations…

\nThe story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip\n…

\nThe rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and…

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities…

\nAn intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time\n…

\nThe tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman\n…

\nAn intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize\n…

\nA renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and…

\nA powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler\n…

\nThe fourth and final volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time,…

\nAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth…

An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect…

\nA portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher\n…