Dante: The Essential Commedia
Dante Alighieri and Prue Shaw
$35.00 hardcover | Can. $47.00 • CQ 12 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096207 • 6¼ x 9¼ 10 illustrations • 624 Pages • POETRY
Prue Shaw’s absorbing, highly accessible introduction to the Commedia promises to be the essential edition for years to come.
Dante’s epic story of one man’s journey from darkness to the revelation of divine light is one of the greatest works of Western literature. Because of its length and its language, it is viewed as forbidding. College courses often cherry-pick from the Inferno and barely glance at Purgatorio and Paradiso. In The Essential Commedia, Prue Shaw, a renowned Dante scholar, fillets the epic to create an absorbing tour of all three realms of the afterlife. Extensive passages of the work’s greatest poetry, astutely excerpted, are offered in translation alongside the original, making it easy to read Dante in English, Italian, or both. The translation into modern, idiomatic English avoids archaisms, padding, and syntactic contortions. With no loss of rigor, a complex text is rendered accessible by a teacher whose decades of experience enable her to highlight those aspects of the poem—the drama, the poetry, the intellectual excitement —any reader will appreciate.
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Prue Shaw is an emeritus reader in Italian at University College London. She is the editor of the edizione nazionale of Dante’s medieval Latin treatise Monarchia and of a groundbreaking digital edition of the Commedia (freely accessible at www.dantecommedia.it). She lives in Cambridge, England. Dante Alighieri entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but in 1302 was forced into exile. Dante wrote his masterpiece, the Commedia, in the courts of Italy.
On Drugs
Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality
Justin Smith-Ruiu
$27.99 hardcover | Can. $36.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324094975 • 5½ x 8¼ 240 Pages • PHILOSOPHY
A renowned philosopher takes a clear-eyed look at the mind-expanding potential and mind-blowing implications of psychedelic experiences.
In the wake of a personal loss and the global upheaval of the pandemic, philosopher Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a simple yet profound question: Who am I, and how did I get here? This moment marked the beginning of a transformative journey for Smith-Ruiu, one that would take him deep into the realm of psychedelics and alter his perception of the world.
On Drugs blends memoir, investigative reporting, and philosophical inquiry as Smith-Ruiu explores the profound impact of psychedelics on the mind and human consciousness. Drawing on a broad range of intellectual history and his personal experiences as “an articulate guinea pig,” he delves into how these substances challenge Western assumptions about reality, the self, and existence. By confronting the essence of our thoughts and perceptions, psychedelics offer a path to a radically new way of thinking and a new philosophical lens that could reshape how we understand ourselves and our place in the universe.
For anyone interested in philosophy, consciousness, or the transformative potential of psychedelics, On Drugs offers an insightful and thought-provoking exploration of mindaltering substances, their impact on modern thought, and the very nature of reality
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Justin Smith-Ruiu is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. He is the author, most recently, of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is. He writes regularly for Harper’s, WIRED, the New York Times, and other publications. He lives in Paris.
We the People A
History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
$39.99 hardcover | Can. $53.99 • CQ 12 Territory M • ISBN 9781631496080 • 6¼ x 9¼ 90 black-and-white illustrations • 768 Pages • HISTORY
From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era.
The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world—and one of the most difficult to amend. At what cost? In this landmark, lavishly illustrated book, Harvard professor of history and law Jill Lepore argues that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. Challenging both originalism and the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation, Lepore argues that the framers never intended for the Constitution to be kept, like a butterfly, under glass, but instead expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, improving the machinery of government. In an account as radical as Charles Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Lepore offers a sweeping, lyrical, and democratic constitutional history, telling the stories of generations of Americans who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend America by amending its constitution.
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Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Death and the Gardener
Georgi Gospodinov, Translated by Angela Rodel
$26.00 hardcover | Can. $35.00 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324097297 • 5½ x 8¼ 176 Pages • FICTION
From the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter, a powerful novel on grief and the inevitable end of childhood.
“My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden.”
Death and the Gardener traces the final month of a father’s life, a dying father in a dying world. His son Georgi, the narrator, reports both radically and gently from those end times. The novel unfolds also as a history of the father’s generation—born in Bulgaria at the end of World War II, “often absent, clinging to the snorkel of a cigarette, swimming in different waters and clouds.” What kept the old man down to earth was his garden, turning after his departure into a place of ultimate loss but also of consolation, where he would live on in the first tulips of spring. With striking acuity, Georgi Gospodinov explores the peculiar reality of taming grief through storytelling. Masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, this is another profoundly moving novel from “one of the indispensable writers of our times” (International Booker Prize Jury).
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Georgi Gospodinov is one of Bulgaria’s most prolific authors. He is the recipient of the International Booker Prize, the Premio Strega, and the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, among many other accolades. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Angela Rodel won the International Booker for translation and has received honors such as the PEN Translation Fund Grant and an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship. She lives in Sofia.
The Gales of November
The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon
For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century better than the 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald—the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes.
But on November 10, 1975, as the “storm of the century” threw 100 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot waves on Lake Superior, the Mighty Fitz found itself at the worst possible place, at the worst possible time. When she sank, she took all 29 men onboard down with her, leaving the tragedy shrouded in mystery for a half century.
In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind—"the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad.
Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster.
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John U. Bacon has authored fourteen books on sports, business, health, and history, the last seven of which are critically acclaimed national bestsellers, including five New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Ann Arbor and northern Michigan with his wife and son.
$35.00 | Can. $47.00 • CQ 24 • Territory M • ISBN 9781324094647 • 6¼" x 9¼" • Two 8 page full-color inserts • 432 pages • HISTORY
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.”
Happy People Don't Live Here A Novel Amber
Sparks
$27.99 hardcover | Can. $36.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324094395 • 5½ x 8¼ 240 Pages • FICTION
In Amber Sparks’ highly anticipated debut novel, a reclusive mother and her saturnine daughter move into a haunted building brimming with eccentrics—and secrets.
Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments—a former sanitorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: a professional mermaid, a handyperson moonlighting as a medium, and an awkward professor of medieval studies. For the determinedly private Alice, Pine Lake seems the perfect place to hide herself and her daughter—until the day Fern finds a dead body in the dumpster. Intent on solving this mystery, and dodging warnings from her increasingly paranoid mother, Fern’s investigation digs up long-buried secrets that implicate each of her neighbors . . . and conjures a new party from beyond the grave. A darkly funny gothic tale, Happy People Don’t Live Here is an unforgettable novel from a “master of the fantastic” (Roxane Gay) that takes a sharp look at love, family, and the sometimes-dangerous myths we make for ourselves.
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Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collections And I Do Not Forgive You and The Unfinished World. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Slate, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, daughter, and cats.
Reflections in Black
A History of Black Photographers: 1840 to the Present
Deborah Willis, Foreword by Robin D G Kelley
$100.00 hardcover | Can. $131.00 • CQ 10 Territory W • ISBN 9781324091790 • 9 x 12 544 photographs • 400 Pages • PHOTOGRAPHY
“Nothing less than an epic of Homeric proportions . . . Willis’s magnificent gathering of images . . . rewrites American history.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
The first comprehensive history of Black photographers, Reflections in Black returns in this groundbreaking, magnificently produced pictorial collection of African American life. Now offering over 500 images from 1840 to the present, this breathtaking work provides rich, moving glimpses of everyday Black life, from slavery to the Great Migration to suburban life, including rare antebellum daguerreotypes, photojournalism of the civil rights era, and multimedia portraits of middle-class families, along with a contemporary section depicting images of both joy and mourning, beauty and protest that have indelibly changed the world we know Featuring the works of undisputed masters such as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems, this expanded edition now includes works from great twentyfirst-century artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lorna Simpson, and Phylicia Ghee. A work so significant that it has the power to reconfigure our conception of American history, Reflections in Black is an essential part of our heritage.
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Deborah Willis—MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow—is a celebrated author, photographer, and NYU professor who lives in New York City. Robin D. G. Kelley wrote the foreword to both editions of Reflections in Black. He is the author of several books, including the prizewinning Thelonious Monk. Kalia Brooks, who wrote the coda to the 2025 edition of Reflections in Black, is the director of programs and exhibitions at NXTHVN.
Wings
The Story of a Band on the Run
Paul McCartney, Edited by Ted Widmer
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the astonishing, almost improbable, story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band from 1971 through its dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, key players, and family members, Wings poignantly recounts, now with a half-century’s wisdom, the story of a man and musician navigating the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup, soon joined by his wife—American photographer Linda McCartney—on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, among many others. Organized around nine Wings albums, the narrative follows the adventurous band as they survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, appear unannounced at various university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the decade. With 150 black-andwhite and color photographs, many previously unseen, this is a landmark work of soaring originality.
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Born in Liverpool in 1942, Paul McCartney was raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool Institute. Since writing his first song at fourteen, McCartney has dreamed and dared to be different. He lives in England. Ted Widmer is a historian, writer, librarian, and musician who writes about American history in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and other venues. He has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Washington College. In 2022 he was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
$45.00 | Can. $60.00 • CQ 16 • Territory M • ISBN 9781324096306 • 6¼" x 9¼" • 528 pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Told in revelatory first person, this immersive account of Paul McCartney and Wings is the engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation.
The Mirror of Great Britain
A Life of King James VI and I
Clare Jackson
$35.00 hardcover | Can. • CQ 24 Territory D • ISBN 9781324094999 • 6¼ x 9¼ 16 page color insert • 432 Pages • HISTORY
A major reassessment of King James I of England and VI of Scotland, revealing the long origins of an uneasily united kingdom.
Bible-thumper, witch-hunter: history has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I has long been eclipsed in fame and reputation by his cousin and predecessor, Elizabeth I, and his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots. Now, four hundred years after his death, Wolfson History Prize–winning historian Clare Jackson finally reappraises his life and evolving legacy, contextualizing both the domestic drama of his youth and the renewed creativity of the Jacobean era, culminating in the commissioning of the King James Bible, as well as the many attempts on his life, including Guy Fawkes’s notorious Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the process, Jackson reveals how the king’s keen interest in joining worlds old and new—the creation of colonies overseas and, closer to home, uniting Scotland, England, and Ireland—set the geopolitical stage for centuries to come.
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Clare Jackson is Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History at Trinity Hall. For her book Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588–1688, Jackson was awarded the 2022 Wolfson History Prize. She lives in Cambridge, England.
The Jaguar's Roar A Novel Micheliny Verunschk, Translated by Juliana Barbassa
$27.99 hardcover | Can. $36.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324097464 • 5½ x 8¼ 176 Pages • FICTION
The story of an Indigenous girl’s kidnapping during a colonial expedition intertwines with a young woman’s modern-day search for identity and ancestral truths.
In 1817, explorers Spix and Martius returned from their three-year voyage in Brazil with not only an extensive account of their journey, but also with an Indigenous boy and girl, Iñe-e and Juri. Kidnapped from rival tribes as part of the colonialist trend of collecting “living specimens” on scientific expeditions, the two tragically perished shortly after arriving in Europe. This lyrically rich novel takes their perspective to illuminate their harrowing journey.
Micheliny Verunschk’s fifth novel, the first to be translated into English, powerfully challenges dominant historical narratives by centering the voices of these stolen Indigenous children. Intertwining their story with a narrative set in contemporary Brazil, we meet Josefa, a young woman grappling with her own identity when she encounters Iñe-e’s image in an exhibition. Through its poignant exploration of memory, colonialism, and belonging, this novel stands out in Brazilian literature, offering readers a profound reflection on the enduring impact of history on personal lives.
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Micheliny Verunschk is the author of five books and winner of the 2022 Jabuti Prize. She lives in Recife, Brazil.
Juliana Barbassa is an award-winning journalist and author. She is a features editor at The New York Times and lives in New York City.
Ivson Miranda
Nadia
Sussman
And Then? And Then?
What Else?
Daniel
Handler and Lemony Snicket
$18.99 paperback | Can. • CQ 36 Territory N • ISBN 9781324097068 • 5½ x 8¼ 240 Pages • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten.
Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans sprung from the author’s own path, from his childhood discovery of Baudelaire’s poetry, through the countless peculiarities of his pursuit of a literary life—abject failure and startling success, breakthrough and breakdown, concordance and controversy, lit along the way by the books and culture he loved best.
At once a personal memoir and a literary exploration, a how-to book and a critical inquiry, a sequence of stories and a series of events, And Then? And Then? What Else? is a book not just for anyone curious about the creator of Lemony Snicket, but for anyone who loved books when they were a child, and still loves them now.
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Daniel Handler is best known for his books as Lemony Snicket, notably the thirteenvolume A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book sequence All the Wrong Questions. Under his given name, he is the author of seven novels, and has worked extensively in music, theater, film, and television. He lives in San Francisco, California.
The Rest Is Memory A Novel Lily Tuck
$17.99 paperback | Can. $23.99 • CQ 48 Territory M • ISBN 9781324097099 • 5½ x 8¼ 1 map • 128 Pages • FICTION
The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.
A decade prior to writing The Rest Is Memory, Lily Tuck came across three photos of fourteen-year-old Czesława Kwoka, a Catholic girl from rural Poland who was murdered in Auschwitz. Only able to glean the barest facts about her, Tuck deftly weaves fact with fiction to recover a young life tragically lost. “Beautifully written, all the while instilling a sense of horror” (Susanna Moore), The Rest Is Memory becomes an unforgettable work of historical reclamation that rescues an innocent life, one previously only recalled by a stark triptych.
“A literary resurrection, as shattering as it is astonishing . . . Lily Tuck has done the impossible; from darkness and hideous cruelty, she has woven an unforgettable paean to hope, to life, to justice.”—Junot Diaz
“The author’s skillful blending of facts and fiction reanimates the memory of one of the countless lost children of the Holocaust. A painful, essential, unflinching memento.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Lily Tuck, the winner of the National Book Award for The News from Paraguay, is the author of seven novels, three short story collections, and a biography of Elsa Morante. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she lives in New York.
Mr. Churchill in the White House
The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
Robert Schmuhl
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324097075 • 5½ x 8¼ 25 black-and-white illustrations throughout • 384 Pages • HISTORY
An illuminating account of Winston Churchill’s unprecedented stays at the White House and his myriad efforts to influence American policy.
Biographers typically portray Winston Churchill as a soldier, statesman, writer, or daredevil, but author Robert Schmuhl “has found a fresh angle” (Wall Street Journal), depicting him as an exhausting White House guest. “With the kind of charm and humor you don’t expect in a book on the War” (Terri Schlichenmeyer), Schmuhl’s work reveals the untold story of a prime minister and two presidents, offering behindthe-scenes looks at Churchill, FDR, Eisenhower, and the formidable Eleanor Roosevelt. Diaries, letters, and government documents supply the foundation and color for each Churchill visit, providing a wholly novel perspective on one of history’s most perplexing and many-faceted figures.
“What was meant to be a casual week-long read transformed into a captivating allnighter flipping through the pages of a book I never knew I needed.”—International Churchill Society
“Robert Schmuhl admirably captures the vitality and cunning of Churchill’s D.C. residency with consummate skill, colorful anecdotes, and crisp historical analysis.”— Douglas Brinkley
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Robert Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg–Edmund P. Joyce Chair Emeritus in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. He’s the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Glory and the Burden about the US presidency.
The Twenty Days of Turin A Novel Giorgio De Maria, Translated by Ramon Glazov, Foreword by Jeff VanderMeer
$18.99 paperback | Can. $24.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324095514 • 5½ x 8¼ 224 Pages • FICTION
Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, this cult-classic novel is the “perfect prediction of the internet era” (Gabino Iglesias).
In the vacant wing of a sanatorium in Turin, Italy, the Library allows lonely citizens to read one another’s diaries and converse in “dialogues across the ether.” But when their scribblings devolve into ugly confessions, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day “phenomenon of collective psychosis” culminating in inexplicable nightly massacres, the Library is shut down and erased from history—that is, until a lonely salaryman investigates these mysterious events. Brilliantly translated into English by Ramon Glazov, with a new foreword by “King of Weird Fiction” (Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker) Jeff VanderMeer, this clairvoyant masterpiece is as timely as ever.
“No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the ’80s or ’90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this.” —Jason Sheehan, NPR
“A haunting, eerily prescient novel.” —Carmen Maria Machado
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Giorgio de Maria (1924–2009) was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is The Twenty Days of Turin. Ramon Glazov has contributed to many US and Australian publications, including Jacobin and Tincture Journal. He splits his time between Perth and Turin.
Eurotrash A Novel Christian Kracht,
Translated by Daniel Bowles
A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.
From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht’s career narrated by an eponymous “Christian” (the first was his best-selling 1995 debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has arrived to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a mental institution. Reckoning with his family’s dark history—his long-dead grandfather was intimately associated with and unapologetically supportive of the Nazis—and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, Christian sets off on a road trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland together in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, which they’re carrying in a large plastic bag, to random strangers. By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation.
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Christian Kracht’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His novel Imperium won the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2012. He lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter.
Daniel Bowles’s translation of Imperium won the Goethe-Institut’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2016. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.