Featured Books

A Calamity of Souls
The Women
Toxic Prey
Camino Ghosts
A Will and a Way
The Murder Inn
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
It Had to Be You
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
The Only Woman in the Room
Table for Two
John Donne s Physics

John Donne s Physics

"With the anniversary of Donne's brilliant and difficult Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions coming up in 2024, Elizabeth Harvey and Timothy Harrison's John Donne's Physics is a timely study that provides fresh ...

Sovereign Fictions

Sovereign Fictions

"The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to be concerned with private lives and social relations. But Russian fiction, obsessively focused on scenarios of state power, was an exception to the ...

All Things Are Too Small

All Things Are Too Small

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In ...

The Washington Book

The Washington Book

The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, ...

The Cooking of Books  A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books A Literary Memoir

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring....

Sacred Language  Vernacular Difference

Sacred Language Vernacular Difference

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as ...

The Psalms

The Psalms

"Few books were composed over a longer period of time and have exercised more cultural and religious influence than the Psalms, the longest and most complex collection in the Hebrew ...