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Molka

Molka 2026

In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung’s network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds the real...
The Keeper

The Keeper 2026

Cal Hooper, Book 3
On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old...
Strange Buildings
From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery—eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A...
Want to Know a Secret?
Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know. Like… Where did...
Hang On St. Christopher
Sean Duffy, Book 8
Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It's July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to "Shortbread Land." Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning...
Dear Debbie
Sometimes, enough is enough… Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or...
Woman Down

Woman Down 2026

Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you....
Even the Dead
Quirke, Book 7
Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Dublin pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that’s needed is an extended rest. But when a body turns...
Holy Orders
Quirke, Book 6
1950s Dublin. A battered body discovered floating in a canal is quickly identified as Jimmy Minor, an up-and-coming investigative journalist for the Clarion and a good friend to Phoebe, the daughter of pathologist Quirke. Determined to find Jimmy’s killer, Quirke enlists his sometime partner,...
The House Guests
NO ONE’S AROUND FOR MILES… One year ago, Iris’s world turned upside down. Haunted by nightmares of her mother’s traumatic death, Iris has become a sleep-deprived, jittery version of herself who she hardly recognizes anymore. So when she’s given the opportunity to get away from the crushing grind...
No One Aboard
At the start of summer, billionaire couple Francis and Lila Cameron set off on their private luxury sailboat to celebrate the high school graduation of their two beloved children. Three weeks later, the Camerons have not been heard from, the captain hasn’t responded to radio calls, and the sailboat...
Closing Time
Michael Gannon, Book 5
It's springtime in Key West, and Michael Gannon is busy supporting his son’s dreams of making it in minor league baseball. But a late-night encounter with a seemingly harmless Australian at a dive bar turns deadly when Gannon unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in a convenience store...
The Yellow Room
As far as New Yorker Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol on the verge of spinsterhood at twenty-four. Instead of allowing her to take a job in...
Vengeance

Vengeance 2025

Quirke, Book 5
Two men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Quirke aren’t so sure… The dead man is the patriarch of the powerful Delahaye family; the survivor is the scion of the Clancy family, their longtime...
The Hedgewitch of Foxhall
Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the...
The Atlas of Us
In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she’s working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad’s favorite places in the world. Before...
An Archive of Romance
“I will love you to ruination,” the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek. “Yours or mine?” I asked. The Fairy King did not answer. Effy and Preston have been torn apart by the wars of men, the power of words, and the specter of magic—but it was through stories that they...
Death at Morning House
The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist. With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the...
The Cuffing Game
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when there is a hot person, there is also someone with a crush on them. Mia Yoon has a plan for everything. Get a full ride to her dream film school in Los Angeles, behind her mom’s back, and escape her middle-of-nowhere hometown—check. Produce her own...
Red as Royal Blood
Ruby has never found a puzzle she couldn’t solve. Even though she’s destined to spend the rest of her life as a servant to the royal family, her mind itches for a true challenge. But no puzzle could prepare her for the king’s decision to name Ruby as the next heir to the throne just before his...
How Girls Are Made
Fallon is a fixer. From planning prom to organizing her college applications, she’s got it all figured out…except for when her younger sister comes to her with very basic questions about sex. Shocked that she knows so little—and her fellow classmates even less—Fallon decides some practical education...
Mixing Magics
Bernadette Crowley feels like she’s finally getting a handle on her diabetes diagnosis. At least, she can finally manage to not summon a demon every time she checks her blood sugar. But without her Grandma Orla, who disappeared into the demon dimension while protecting their family’s coven, even big...
Besties: Set Sail
Busy besties Beth and Chanda are all aboard for a relaxing ocean getaway! Chanda fully embraces being on "Sunshine Time." The only items on her to-do list are showing off her summer fashions, snorkeling, lounging on the beach with Beth, and sightseeing with her family—including her soon-to-be...
A Matter of Murder
A Bingley family curse looms over Lizzie's sister and Darcy's best friend—but are the dark forces at work supernatural or human? Lizzie Bennet’s beloved sister Jane has just married Darcy’s best friend, Bingley, and the Bennet family and Darcy are paying the newlyweds a visit at Bingley’s family...
Warriors: Changing Skies: Hidden Moon
Still healing from an accident that almost killed her, Tawnypelt is eager to share the message she received from StarClan about a “great peril” looming over the clans. But her vision is dismissed by her son and leader, Tigerstar, leaving Tawnypelt with no choice but to take action on her...
Warriors: The Prophecies Begin: Into the Wild
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But now the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty......
The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall: The Sign of the Five
When Arthur Conan Doyle returns to Baskerville Hall, a secretive school for extraordinary students, he’s excited to begin winter term with the friends he loves. However, soon after his arrival, a dangerous foe threatens his favorite professor, Sherlock Holmes, and all signs seem to point to a force...
The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall: The Valley of Lies
Arthur should be happier than ever. Professor Sherlock Holmes has accepted him into the esteemed Circle of Light, and his friendships are stronger than ever. However, Dinah Grey’s ominous letter and her dangerous hold over his little sister, Mary, have left Arthur riddled with anxiety. After the...
The Daggers of Ire
Esmerelda Santos is a rare bruja, born with Chaos magic in her veins. She and her family are direct descendants of one of the four original witches—a mysterious legend about the night magic was born in San Bosco. But since the death of her mother, Esme is more concerned about healing their father’s...
The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate’s Revenge
After Captain Babybeard steals a treasure map from the Queen of the Moon, the notorious pirate sees nothing but piles of gold in his future. But a mutiny, led by his first mate, the Martian Pirate James Plantain, leaves Babybeard marooned on a deserted island. Betrayed by his crew, the little...
Gilded in Vengeance
Two girls attended a magical ball, but one was never seen again. At least that’s what those who betrayed her believed. Two years after being framed for fraud by the Society of the Charmed, an exclusive club of New York’s wealthiest—and most magical—citizens, Emmy Vallillo wastes away in prison,...
Vanishing World
As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her...
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is...
The Tower and the Ruin
No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In *The Tower and the...
A Feast for Crows
After centuries of bitter strife, the seven powers dividing the land have beaten one another into an uneasy truce. But it’s not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots...
Reminders of Him
After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no...
Champagne Taste on a Bad Boy Budget
She's a good girl trying to rebuild her restaurant. He's a felon trying to rebuild… everything. Second chances have never been so sweet. For Jamilah Carver, a by-the-books entrepreneur with refined tastes, running her own restaurant has been a dream come true. Until she’s buried in debt and without...
The Opportunist
When Olivia Kaspen spots her ex-boyfriend in a Miami record shop, she ignores good sense and approaches him. It’s been three years since their breakup, but when Caleb reveals he’s suffering from amnesia after a recent car accident, first she feels regret—and then opportunity. If he doesn’t...
Love Letters for Other People
When mathematician Aubrey MacLean’s career implodes, she has no choice but to return to her rural Indiana hometown, at least temporarily. But small towns have long memories, and so does she, especially when it comes to Nick Thacker, the boy who broke her heart. Nick’s life is routine: long shifts...
How to Grieve Like a Victorian
It’s fine. She’s fine. Really. When life’s turned you into a big hot mess, there’s still love, laughs, and snark to be had… Dr. Lizzie Wells, professor of British literature and bestselling author, is not okay. She wasn’t consulted when her beloved husband died unexpectedly, so she’s going to grieve...
The E.M.M.A. Effect
Harriet Smythe’s AI was supposed to create sports legends—not encourage her crush on her best friend’s totally off-limits, hot younger brother. But when funding runs dry, she has no choice but to enlist Gale Knight as her test subject. The same Gale she’s been secretly crushing on for years. The...
The Rebel With Broken Strings
Naked Moose, Book 3
The past is the past—until he shows up on your doorstep. Self-proclaimed good girl Aubrey Hale has too many secrets. Among them is missing the big-city life she left behind for small-town Montana—the life that included a one-night stand with country star Gunner Woods. But Aubrey and her friends...
Second Chance Romance
Harlot’s Bay, Book 2
Karl and Molly were never together. There was a time, right after high school, where it seemed like they might finally cross the line from friends to lovers… but instead, a foolish misunderstanding meant they never spoke again. Molly went to LA and got married. Karl stayed in Harlot’s Bay and...
The Cuffing Game
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when there is a hot person, there is also someone with a crush on them. Mia Yoon has a plan for everything. Get a full ride to her dream film school in Los Angeles, behind her mom’s back, and escape her middle-of-nowhere hometown—check. Produce her own...
Pick Me

Pick Me 2025

As a cowboy romance ghostwriter, Brooke Murphy knows a thing or two about happily ever afters. But following her last breakup, Brooke is feeling fresh out of hot and steamy vibes. With her next deadline looming and desperate for inspiration, Brooke says yes to every possible romantic opportunity,...
The Hot Shot
Game On, Book 4
Unreasonably sexy NFL star Finn Mannus plus a few guys from the team agree to do a charity calendar photo shoot—naked. With a name like Chess, Finn assumes the photographer is male. But when Chess opens the door to her studio, Finn’s confidence comes off as cocky arrogance. Even while in the buff,...
Not You Again
They have nothing but time... to hate each other. In Julian, California, every day is April 23rd—and in a time loop, there are no rules. Eating endless slices of fresh apple pie? Yes. Partner swapping? Why not. Being trapped inside the plot of a sci-fi film would almost be inspiring for LA...
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold’s stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of...
The Inheritors
When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer’s brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds....
The Tower and the Ruin
No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In *The Tower and the...
HUXLEY

HUXLEY 2025

HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history. The...
On the Calculation of Volume
Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that “it is autumn, but that we’re not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm: I want to save the Royal Academy
Ehrenfest’s new students begin their harsh endeavor to pass each of their written lessons on the very first day. Rozemyne oversees their feverish efforts to achieve the improbable, but keeping morale high is the least of her concerns. She now has more mana than before her two-year slumber, making...
Atlas Creator Collection: Bill Everett: "One Head Too Many!" and Other Weird Horror Stories
Atlas Creator Collection, Book 3 - Part 1
Already a Marvel/Timely legend for his creation of the Sub-Mariner in 1939, Bill Everett returned to Marvel during the 1950s to become Atlas’ most versatile and effective practitioner of horror-fantasy. Everett’s art was a combination of Graham Ingels, Harry Anderson, and Bernie Wrightson, with the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore
Half a year has passed since Yurgenschmidt inaugurated its first underage aub, and Hannelore—now an archduke candidate for the country’s top-ranked duchy—is in the midst of a crisis! She finds herself pressed to choose from a growing list of marriage candidates, and her natural indecisiveness isn’t...
Lost Marvels: Savage Tales of the 1980s
Lost Marvels, Book 3
For 13 months in the mid-1980s, Marvel assembled some of its strongest artists and writers to tell gritty, harrowing, and blackly humorous adventure stories ranging from gangster noir to historical battlefields to the deadly old West to post-apocalyptic futures. Unseen for nearly 40 years, here is...
Ascendance of a Bookworm: I want to save the Royal Academy
Even though she’s a student now, there are still more obstacles standing between Rozemyne and the library she can’t wait to visit. To gain access to its treasure trove of tomes, she must not only finish her own classes but also ensure that all the other first-years pass! Considering regressive...
Ascendance of a Bookworm: I want to save the Royal Academy
Rozemyne awakens from her two-year slumber to find that everything and everyone has changed, which is just as terrifying as it sounds. She’s immediately thrust toward the Royal Academy—a requirement for becoming a noble. There, she’ll meet so many teachers and students from other duchies... but will...
Ascendance of a Bookworm
New Tales from Yurgenschmidt! Rozemyne’s third year at the Royal Academy comes to a close, and so much has changed since her days as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. She has a new name, and she’s grown twenty-five centimeters taller on top of that! Many more books have been printed over the years...
This Looks Like a Job for Duck Avenger!
Who wants the world’s richest duck for their landlord? Not Donald Duck! If Donald can’t get a job and make rent, Uncle Scrooge McDuck will repossess his house; and if Scrooge repossesses Donald’s house, he’ll discover the secret HQ of Donald’s secret identity—Duckburg’s super-anti-hero, Duck...
Petra Chérie
Set during World War I and originally published in serial format from 1977–1982, Petra Chérie follows the adventures of Petra De Karlowitz, “Chérie” to creator Attilio Micheluzzi, who addresses her throughout the book. Born to a Polish businessman and the most beautiful woman in Paris, raised in...
The Complete Hate
Hate, Book 2
Peter Bagge is not only one of the primary architects of the alternative comics scene that exploded in the 1980s and 1990s (alongside peers including Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Daniel Clowes), but also someone who helped fashion the aesthetics and attitudes of an entire youth movement....
Winnie the Pooh: The Hundred Acre Wood Comic Collection
Is your honey pot empty? Oh, bother! Fill it up with dozens of classic comic book stories never before collected—from the vintage American Winnie the Pooh comic book and from Disney comics magazines around the world! Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and the gang rejoin us in a bounty of epic-length cartoon...
The Magnificent Adventure
Young Giuseppe Bergman, thirsting for escape from the banal, soul-crushing boredom of his everyday life, answers a mysterious ad offering the adventure of a lifetime. But before he even gets a chance to understand what that means, he’s swept up in a headlong rush of outrageously convoluted danger...
Search and Destroy
The broken and discarded creatures of the city have had enough of the caste system that keeps them servile, and they rise up to strike… Doro the little thief must confront their past and make impossible decisions about their future... And Hyaku? Hyaku’s quest to retrieve the stolen pieces of her...
The Three-Body Problem
The Adventists’ plan has begun. After two failed attempts, Wang Miao reenters the world of Three Body with a new theory in mind—and this time, he may have finally latched on to the essence of the universe in the game. Meanwhile, Wei Cheng comes to the police reporting a threat on his life, and the...
The Cloven

The Cloven 2025

The Cloven, Book 3
In *The Cloven: Book Three*, our hero, Tuck, the most successful Cloven ever created, is discovered frozen solid in a mountain river. Reanimated by the medicinal mushrooms of The Healer, a legendary member of the Feral Herd of Cloven, Tuck easily integrates with his half-brothers and sisters with...
Besties: Set Sail
Busy besties Beth and Chanda are all aboard for a relaxing ocean getaway! Chanda fully embraces being on "Sunshine Time." The only items on her to-do list are showing off her summer fashions, snorkeling, lounging on the beach with Beth, and sightseeing with her family—including her soon-to-be...
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Even More Morsels for Bookworms! Here is the fifth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing Part 5 Volume 3. As always, this volume contains plenty of art, character design sheets, manga, and a short story not found in the light novels. Also included are the...
Comfortless
“This book makes no claims to scientific validity and is in no way intended for informational purposes.” So declares Miguel Vila in the outset of his new graphic novel, *Comfortless*, a taxonomy of the masks with which we pretend to live, executed with the precision of a master sociologist. It...
Lovers and Haters
Love and Rockets, Book 33
The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s *High Soft Lisp* is torn from the pages of *Love and Rockets: New Stories*, *Love and Rockets Vol. IV*, and *Psychodrama Illustrated*—and expanded with 14 new pages! In *Lovers and Haters*,...
The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate’s Revenge
After Captain Babybeard steals a treasure map from the Queen of the Moon, the notorious pirate sees nothing but piles of gold in his future. But a mutiny, led by his first mate, the Martian Pirate James Plantain, leaves Babybeard marooned on a deserted island. Betrayed by his crew, the little...
Dogtangle

Dogtangle 2025

Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married....
James

James 2026

In James, Percival Everett reimagines the story of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man who escapes down the Mississippi River alongside Huck. Now at the center of the narrative, James reveals a life far more complex than the one seen through Huck’s eyes—one...
Son of Nobody
The Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner’s story was lost to time―until Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic who has left his own wife and daughter behind to study at...
The Newton Letter
Revolutions, Book 3
In this compact literary gem, an historian retreats to a quiet cottage in rural Ireland to complete a biography of Isaac Newton. Why, he must unravel, did Newton suffer a mental collapse in 1693, and why did he write such a strange letter to his friend John Locke—hinting at a personal and...
Good Dirt

Good Dirt 2026

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well. The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black...
Molka

Molka 2026

In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung’s network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds the real...
Vigil

Vigil 2026

Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate...
The Moment of Cubism
The Moment of Cubism is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger draws together the threads that bind individual artists to their social and...
Attention

Attention 2026

For thirty years Anne Enright—one of our greatest living novelists (Times)—has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from...
Light and Thread
In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah...
Raising Hare
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in...
Leaving Home
Simultaneously heart-breaking and hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult. His parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy...
Phyllis Dalton
The extraordinary story of costume designer Phyllis Dalton, filled with insights, recollections, and revelations from a life spent on the great film locations of the twentieth century. In conversation with film historian Alexander Ballinger, Phyllis Dalton (1925–2025) reveals how she created some...
Worthy

Worthy 2025

Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, *Worthy* chronicles her life—from a rebellious youth running the...
The Book of Women
As Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, *Housekeeping*, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.” Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, *The Book of Women’s Friendship* explores the rich subject of friendship between women from every angle: its...
Troublemaker
Who could predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that Time magazine would crown her “Queen of the Muckrakers”? Jessica Mitford, always known as Decca, was brought up by an eccentric English family to marry well and reproduce her wealth and...
Black, White, Colored
In the late nineteenth century, Laurinburg, North Carolina, was a beacon of racial calm—a place where Blacks and whites could live and work together. Black families like the Malloys became landlords, business owners, and doctors. Thriving together and changing the economic landscape. But that...
From Ear to Ear
While other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers. Beginning with impromptu piano gigs in the 1960s, Blier ascended to a dazzling career as an...
Merze Tate

Merze Tate 2025

Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.” Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international...
Without Consent
In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many Americans and was a crime in only four states. After a quick and conservative trial, John Rideout was acquitted, and a defense lawyer...
On My Watch
When Jens Stoltenberg took office as secretary general of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape the West’s shared security. On My Watch takes readers behind closed doors and offers rare insight into...
Late Admissions
Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what’s expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on affirmative action, institutional racism,...
The Baron of Wall Street
The definitive biography of one of the most influential and innovative figures in the history of American finance who revolutionized Wall Street and whose story reads like a real-life Great Gatsby—J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Charles E. Mitchell. These are some of the most prominent icons of...