Presents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history,…

\nEddie S. Glaude Jr. weaves personal anecdotes and meditations to offer a positive vision for Black politics: the…

\nCollege still looks like it did a century ago, with instructors delivering lectures to silent rows of students. Yet…

Clancy argues that abductees are sane, intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mĂ©lange…

Shows how the very organization of the locally controlled, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult.…

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What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…

This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany,…

An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University-its undergraduate college and nine…

Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new…

For Tommie Shelby, the persistence of ghettos raises many thorny questions of morality, and he offers practical answers…

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by…

\nIn this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have…

Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

Dignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning.…

\nJonathan Lear\'s insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end-that is, the purpose-of living. How to…

Gallagher argues that we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. He examines…

One child in five in America is a child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an interdisciplinary…

Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one…

In a Different Voice is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with…

McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only…

This collection provides a rich, multilayered analysis of a long-neglected branch of early Christian apocryphal literature…

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This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the "Great Coalfield War." In a story of…

This book examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of 13th- and 14th-century…

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most…

A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies…

\nWhile the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how…

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An economist challenges an emerging orthodoxy: the idea that the best way to alleviate poverty is simply to give people…

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\nExploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are…

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How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do…

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth.…

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can't get published without writing wordy,…

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about China's…

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record,…

In this wise and enlightening book, filled with vivid characters and memorable incidents that make history but don't always…

What determines the rate of growth, the distribution of income, and the structure of relative prices under capitalism? What,…

\nThe root of democratic decline is insecurity, not inequality. Antidemocrats across the globe feel differently about…