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National Bestseller   Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History • Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book …

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind  A New Yorker Best of the Week …

A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries“Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art …

A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day  A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023   “Ignorance: A Global History explores the …

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?   In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to …

A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking   “A broad-ranging book [that] has something for every rambler.”—Benjamin Riley, New Criterion …

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize  Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography …

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?   Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From …

The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic …

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848   Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with …