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From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.Judith Butler, the pioneering theorist whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts one of the most pressing issues of our time. So-called gender ideology-and its supposed dangers-has provoked reactionary backlash across the world. Global networks spread the idea that gender is a ...

An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis-about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.One question took center stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself: how could I get this revenge, by what means? I tried everything.Édouard Louis has received international acclaim for his vivid, unflinching accounts of poverty and...

A gut-busting and heartbreaking descent into one woman's fraying connection to reality, from a soon-to-be superstar.Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother.Over the course of on...

Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family¿the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantitie...

A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow.On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel, he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jew...

An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first professional baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five.As a rookie on the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all-hit, throw, catch, score. As a teammate, he was the heart of the clubhouse and energized fellow players with his enthusiasm. It was this enthusiasm that led Burke to invent the high five one October day at Dodger Stadiu...

Threads is an inspiring picture book about a girl's survival of the 1930s Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, messaging hope, pride for one's heritage, and context for today's War in Ukraine.The threads on Zlata's beautiful birthday blouse were knotted by her mother's hands. "Red is for love, and black is for sadness, " her Papa says. Her Mama warns her not to show it off. Ever since the Communists came from Russia to Ukraine, they prohibited the teach...

A funny and charming French snail sets off on a springtime adventure in Escargot and the Search for Spring, the standalone fourth installment in the award-winning picture book series written by New York Times-bestselling author Dashka Slater and illustrated by Sydney Hanson-featuring an adorable bunny, this is the perfect read for Easter.Bonjour! Escargot is thrilled to see everyone again, but you may notice that our favorite French snail is l...

For fans of Casey McQuiston and Alice Oseman, a girl falls for her best friend's crush in Cupid's Revenge, a queer YA rom-com from Wibke Brueggemann that's equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy.It was never Tilly's intention to fall in love, but Cupid will get you when you least expect it. That's exactly what happens when Tilly's best friend, Teddy, ropes Tilly into a plan to woo his dream girl, aspiring actress Katherine Cooper-Bunting. It t...

An uplifting middle-grade novel about loss, luck . . . and deep-dish chocolate chip cookies-perfect for fans of King and the Dragonflies and The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. Eighth-grader Freya June Sun has always believed in the Chinese superstitions spoon-fed to her since birth. Ever since her dad's death a year ago, she's become obsessed with them, and believes that her father is sending her messages from beyond. Like how, on her w...

The magnum opus of one one of Europe's greatest living writers."Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.Taking his firmly imbedd...

The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers."Instead of a chronicle, a person tends to manufacture legends when he relates the story of his life for others, " Péter Nádas writes in his fiction masterpiece, Parallel Stories. Now, in his own memoir, the renowned author investigates what it might mean to reconstruct a life without recourse to the techniques and embellishments of traditional storytelling.Taking his firmly imbedded m...

The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it-its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism becomes a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm....

Elisa Gonzalez's thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück). Night Trains, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself by writing.Gonzalez's poetry depicts the fullness of living. There are the...

Joanne McNeil's debut novel is an idea-driven portrait of a woman cornered by capitalism who lands her dream job.For years, Teresa has meandered from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, unable to move ahead in any field or career, the dreaded move from one gig to another starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a "good" j...

A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the long-ignored role of Black women organizers-includes a wealth of black and white photos from the time period throughout.Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs a...

A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities.In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the ...

A selection of sharp, witty, and impeccably crafted poems from A. E. Stallings, the award-winning poet and translator.This Afterlife: Selected Poems brings together poetry from A. E. Stallings's four acclaimed collections, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, as well as a lagniappe of outlier poems. Over time, themes and characters reappear, speaking to one another across years and experience, creating a complex music of harmony, dissonance...

A madcap story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment, a historical novel like no other.It's the eighteenth century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent, fighting and fraternizing with foreign diplomats. Her parents are elsewhere. And a man, somewhere, is telling stories about her-about her affairs, her sexuality, her mad orgies and addictions and...

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces us to our earliest thinkers through the lands they inhabited. To know the mental occupations of Homer or Heraclitus, one must visit their cities, sail their se...