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Undercurrents
An international literary superstar since the publication of her "fascinating and original" (The New York Times Book Review) first novel, Pig Tails, and her "tender, …
Notes from an Abolitionist: The Reasons We Struggle to Be Free
Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light
A street-level people's view of one of the world's beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris …
The Fifth ACT
The scripts of award-winning film director Ingmar Bergman have been among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The …
Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future
In the years after World War II, California, always regarded as an experiment for the American future, became an encouraging model for the nation. It was admired and envied for the …
The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today
Best known for his paean to self-sufficiency, Living the Good Life, which became a bestseller that Newsweek called "an underground bible for the city-weary," Scott Nearing was also …
The Infernal Machine
A narrative account of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries in 1881 St. Petersburg evaluates the event's links to modern-day terrorist practices …
Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine
"Submersion journalism" happens when a reporter dares to see a story from the inside: to participate in the events at hand, sometimes undercover, and then to tell the tale from a …
Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power
In the shadow of America's recent military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, distinguished historians of empires and noted international relations specialists consider the dirty …
The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms
With help from the National Rifle Association and the pro-gun lobby, the idea that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an unrestricted right to gun …
Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq
The departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a broken country and a host of unanswered questions. What was the war really about? Why and how did the …