Marie Favereau's The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World is an epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them—not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history. Literary Review revels in "a major achievement" while the Wall Street Journal champions a "fresh, persuasive telling."
Beronda L. Montgomery's Lessons from Plants is an exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. Publishers Weekly stops to smell the roses: "[Montgomery's] knowledge and enthusiasm will have readers looking at plants in a new light."
Erik J. Larson's The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is just a few clicks away—and argues that this myth is blocking innovation and distorting our ability to make the crucial next leap. Peter Thiel states: "If you want to know about AI, read this book."
The Letters of Robert Frost » A new volume of this series of letters—critically acclaimed by the New York Times, New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and NPR—illuminates a triumphant and difficult period in the life of a towering literary figure.
The Story behind Dante's Bones » This year marks the 700th anniversary of Dante's death. To honor this occasion, Guy Raffa explains how he came to write Dante's Bones, on what some might consider to be a morbid topic.
Finding Solidarity in Others' Struggles » After a year marked by protests for racial equality and social justice, Amelia M. Glaser, author of Songs in Dark Times, reminds us of the Yiddish poets during the interwar years who drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of other marginalized peoples.
Rave Reviews
The Next Shift » "An original work [that's] vivid and readable; Winant has an eye for the telling, and occasionally crushing, detail." —New York Times
"A road map for how to think about the changing working class." —Bookforum
Traveling Black » A New York Times New Book Recommendation A Book Riot "Essential Book about Black Identity and History"
"[A] superb history of mobility and resistance." —New York Times
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Tacky's Revolt | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction » "This is truly a remarkable and important event in the history of the world, largely unknown (I confess that I was ignorant of it)… Not only did Vincent Brown do heroic work in his original scholarship, but he escaped the insular world of academese and presented it in an accessible and appealing form. It's a major accomplishment." —Steven Pinker, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Juror
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