The Catch A Novel Yrsa Daley-Ward
$28.99 hardcover | Can. $38.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324092513 • 6 x 9 320 Pages • FICTION
This inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl × Liveright series is a darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity.
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life.
Clara, a celebrity author in desperate need of validation, believes Serene is their mother, while Dempsey, isolated and content to remain so, believes she is a con woman. As they clash over this stranger, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their pasts—together. In her riveting first foray into fiction, Yrsa Daley-Ward conjures a kaleidoscopic multiverse of daughterhood and mother-want, exploring the sacrifices that Black women must make for self-actualization. The result is a marvel of a debut novel that boldly asks, “How can it ever, ever be a crime to choose yourself?”
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Yrsa Daley-Ward is a poet, writer, and actress. She is the author of The How, bone, and The Terrible, for which she won the PEN Ackerley Prize. She lives in Los Angeles.
Speaking in Tongues
J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos
$26.99 hardcover | Can. $35.99 • CQ 36 Territory T • ISBN 9781324096450 • 5½ x 8 144 Pages • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.
Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues—taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel-Laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimópulos—explores questions that have constantly plagued writers and translators, now more than ever. Among them:
How can a translator liberate meanings imprisoned in the language of a text?
Why is the masculine form dominant in gendered languages while the feminine is treated as a deviation?
How should we counter the spread of monolingualism?
Should a translator censor racist or misogynistic language?
Does mathematics tell the truth about everything?
In the tradition of Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay “The Task of the Translator,” Speaking in Tongues emerges as an engaging and accessible work of philosophy, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.
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Born in Cape Town, J. M. Coetzee is the author of more than twenty books. With his novels Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace, Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mariana Dimópulos is an Argentine writer, translator, and teacher specializing in German philosophy and the work of Walter Benjamin. She is a professor at the University of Saarland and the University of Halle. She lives in Berlin.
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Bear Witness
A Crusade for Justice in a Violent Land
Ross Halperin
$31.99 hardcover | Can. $41.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324090786 • 6 x 9 352 Pages • TRUE CRIME
A high-octane true-crime story, Bear Witness follows two Christians who refuse to let fear or conventional wisdom stand in the way of their altruistic mission.
As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn’t until they moved to an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in Honduras that they came to a radical conclusion: the charity world was combatting poverty incorrectly
In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best friends became quasi vigilantes and charged into a series of life-and-death battles: first with the gang that terrorized their community, then with a notorious tycoon who commanded about a thousand armed men, and finally with a police force whose corruption defied credulity. Their efforts made some of the most violent neighborhoods on earth safer, but not without compromising their principles, precipitating collateral damage, and acquiring their share of outraged critics.
A remarkable and dangerous feat of reportage, Bear Witness is a thrilling account of an unorthodox mission to establish justice in a place thought to be beyond the reach of the law.
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Ross Halperin attended Harvard University and worked under Mark A. R. Kleiman, one of the world’s leading criminal-justice scholars. He started reporting this story in 2018 and has since spent much of his time in Honduras.
Belle Starr
The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
Michael Wallis
$32.99 hardcover | Can. $43.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781631494772 • 6 x 9 30 black-and-white images, 8 page insert • 544 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
In this definitive biography of the most famous female outlaw of the nineteenth century, best-selling historian Michael Wallis challenges a notorious legacy.
In the annals of legendary Wild West desperados, Belle Starr is remembered to this day as the Bandit Queen. Shortly after her murder in 1889, a highly romanticized, sensational book titled Bella Starr . . . The Bandit Queen, or the Female Jesse James was published—the first of scores of high-profile portraits to brand Starr as a villain. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis parses over a century of mythmaking to reveal the woman behind the “Wanted” poster. From war-torn Carthage, Missouri, to rollicking Scyene, Texas, Starr indeed ran in the same circles as notorious outlaws Cole Younger and Jesse James, but Wallis shows that the crimes ascribed to her were embellished. The result is a breathtaking portrait of a woman demonized for refusing to accept the genteel Victorian ideals expected of her. Instead, she chose to live her life outside the law, riding sidesaddle with a pearl-handled Colt .45 strapped to her hip.
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Michael Wallis, author of The Best Land Under Heaven and the best-selling Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published nineteen books and won numerous awards and honors. He is a popular public speaker and voice actor and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Florenzer A Novel Phil Melanson
$29.99 hardcover | Can. $39.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324095033 • 6 x 9 4 black-and-white images • 400 Pages • FICTION
Set in Renaissance-era Florence, this ravishing debut reimagines the intersecting lives of three ambitious young men—a banker, a priest, and a gay painter named Leonardo.
Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to join his father in Florence with dreams of becoming a painter. Francesco Salviati, also a bastard and scorned for his too-dark skin, dedicates himself to the Catholic Church with grand hopes of salvation. Towering above them both is Lorenzo de’ Medici, barely a man, yet soon to be the patriarch of the world’s wealthiest and most influential bank. Each is, in his own way, a son of Florence. Each will, when their paths cross, shed blood on Florence’s streets.
Brash and breathtaking, this lush historical drama explores the dangerous pursuit of artistic and political achievement—especially at a time when “florenzers,” or gay men such as Leonardo, were often persecuted. Mining the origins of one of history’s finest artists and the city where he came of age, Florenzer introduces an enthralling new voice in fiction.
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Jess Rose Phil Melanson is a graduate of New York University and the University of Warwick. A former movie marketer for Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures, he now lectures in film and television for Boston University. He lives in London.
Works of Love
A New Translation
Søren Kierkegaard, Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse
$42.99 hardcover | Can. $56.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324093671 • 6 x 9 448 Pages • PHILOSOPHY
Following his “brisk, readable, accurate” (Gregory R. Beabout) translations of Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Bruce H. Kirmmse presents a new translation of Kierkegaard’s discourses on love.
First published in 1847, Works of Love is among Søren Kierkegaard’s most explicitly religious works. Intended to awaken rather than convince—to replicate “the stinging, impatient character of a ‘gadfly,’” as translator Bruce H. Kirmmse writes—the book consists of a series of fifteen deliberations on love. Contrasting romantic love and love for one’s friends with the selfless Christian love—agape—of the New Testament, Works of Love contends that the only way to purge self-interest from love is to love one’s neighbor, who is “indeed unconditionally every person.” Though always careful to distinguish his “deliberations” from clerical “sermons,” Kierkegaard insisted that in order to grasp the full meaning of the work, one must hear it. Whereas other translations have obscured or disregarded the rhetorical aspect of the text, Kirmmse’s translation preserves it—thus making the same request of its readers that Kierkegaard once made of his: to hear the argument by reading it aloud.
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Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian whose work has been widely recognized as foundational both to modern psychology and existentialism. A professor emeritus at Connecticut College, Bruce H. Kirmmse has published several books and numerous articles on Kierkegaard and is general editor of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. He lives in Randolph, New Hampshire, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
The Second Emancipation
Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Howard W. French
The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post–World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana’s revolutionary visionary Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), who emerges as the most significant African leader of the twentieth century. Determined that readers fully understand Nkrumah’s legacy, bestselling author of Born in Blackness Howard W. French newly dramatizes the Nkrumah story—his humble beginnings, his momentous experience in Harlem, his American education, and his return to Ghana in the final years of British subjugation. The language soars as French evokes an entire continent in the throes of liberation and a roiling United States in the Cold War era. In its dramatic depiction of a continent that once exuded the promise of a newly won freedom, The Second Emancipation is a generational work that positions not only Africa but also the American civil rights movement at the forefront of modern-day history.
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Howard W. French is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a former New York Times bureau chief for Central America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Japan and the Koreas, and China, based in Shanghai. The author of six books, including Born in Blackness, French lives in New York City.
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“Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.”
—David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
After the Flood
Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace
Robert Polito
$29.99 hardcover | Can. $39.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9780871402936 • 6 x 9 10 photos • 336 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”
A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s in a haze of substance abuse, made arguably the worst music of his career, and was finally put to bed in the 1980s—only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan’s concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative. That is not this story.
Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, After the Flood reveals Dylan’s output during the last three decades as his most ambitious yet. Across an abecedarium of chapters surveying his albums, performances, films, and books since the early 1990s, celebrated poet Robert Polito shows how Dylan evolved a late musical style that has embodied and resisted its era—interweaving Ovid and Americana, film noir and the Civil War. Imaginatively researched, After the Flood is both an essential revision and continuation of the Dylan saga.
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Robert Polito served as president of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015. He was the founding director of the Graduate Writing Program at the New School. For his book Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, Polito was awarded the National Books Critics Circle Award in Biography.
Augustine the African Catherine Conybeare
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine’s North African birth and Berber heritage have been simply dismissed. Catherine Conybeare, a world-renowned Augustine scholar, here puts the “African” back in Augustine’s story. As she relates, his seminal books were written neither in Rome nor in Milan, but in Africa, where he had returned as a wanderer during a perilous time when the Western Roman Empire was crumbling. Using extant letters and other shards of evidence, Conybeare retraces Augustine’s travels, revealing how his groundbreaking works emerge from an exile’s perspective within an African context. In its depiction of this Christian saint, Augustine the African upends conventional wisdom and traces core ideas of Christian thought to their origins on the African continent.
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Catherine Conybeare, a renowned classicist, is the first woman to write a biography of Augustine since journalist Rebecca West nearly a century ago. Reinterpreting the writings of Augustine and his contemporaries has formed the heart of her scholarly work. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College and lives in Pennsylvania.
The Aeneid Virgil, Translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, Introduction by Emily Wilson
Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aeneid—the first collaborative translation of the poem in English—is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter that engages modern readers while also preserving the epic dignity and pathos of the original. Scott McGill and Susannah Wright’s version also faithfully conveys the poem’s delicate balance between its triumphant celebration of the Roman Empire and its sensitivity to the human costs, for victors and vanquished alike, of antiquity’s most powerful and influential society. The result is a poem in English every bit as complex, inviting, and affecting as the Latin original.
With a rich and informative introduction from Emily Wilson and the full complement of maps and other supporting material that have made Wilson’s Homer translations the standard for our time, this gorgeous edition of Rome’s founding epic will capture the imaginations and stir the souls of a new generation of readers.
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Scott McGill is Deedee McMurtry Professor in Humanities at Rice University. He lives in Houston, Texas. Susannah Wright is assistant professor of classical studies and Roman history at Rice University. She lives in Houston. Emily Wilson’s translations of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad are among the most celebrated translations of our time. She lives in Philadelphia.
$39.99 | Can. $53.99 • CQ 16 • Territory W • ISBN 9781324096436 • 6¼" x 9¼" • 1 map • 480 pages • POETRY
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom.
The Martians
The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-theCentury America
David Baron
$31.99 hardcover | Can. $41.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324090663 • 6 x 9 101 illustrations • 336 Pages • SCIENCE
“There Is Life on the Planet Mars”
—New York Times, December 9, 1906
The Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed that we had discovered intelligent life on Mars. The Martians—a truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baron—begins in the 1890s with Percival Lowell, a wealthy Harvard scion who was so certain of his Mars discovery that he (almost) convinced a generation of astronomers that grainy telescopic photographs of the red planet revealed meltwater and an intricate canal system, declaring “there can be no doubt that living beings inhabit our neighboring world” (New York Times). So frenzied was the reaction that international controversies arose. Tesla announced he had received Martian radio signals. Biologists debated whether Martians were winged or gilled. Martians headlined Broadway shows, and a new genre called science fiction arose. While Lowell’s claims were savagely debunked, his influence sparked a compulsive interest in Mars and life in outer space that continues to this day.
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Dana C. Meyer David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus
A New Translation
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Translated by Damion Searls, Introduction by
This newly translated edition of Wittgenstein’s masterpiece reveals a work of exceptional philosophical and literary genius.
More than a century after its composition, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus endures as the definitive modern text on what logic can and cannot do. Consisting of 525 hierarchically numbered statements, each one “self-evident,” the book is imbued, as translator Damion Searls writes, with the kind of cryptic grandeur and awe-inspiring opacity we might expect—might want—from such an iconic philosopher.
Whereas earlier translations excessively copy German phrasing and syntax, Searls’s translation captures the fluid and forceful prose of the original, rendering Wittgenstein’s work clearer and more accessible than ever before. Featuring a foreword by the late Wittgenstein scholar Marjorie Perloff, this dual-language edition promises to become the standard for generations to come.
“What I love about Searls’s translation . . . is that it captures the literariness of the text. And so, one can better follow the nuanced movement and construction. This is not just another translation.”—Percival Everett
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was a world-renowned Austrian-British philosopher. Damion Searls has translated more than sixty books of literature and philosophy, including books by Nietzsche, Proust, Mann, and Jon Fosse. He is the author of The Inkblots and The Philosophy of Translation. Born in Vienna, Austria, Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024) was the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University.
Left for Dead
Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Eric Jay Dolin
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096740 • 5½ x 8¼ 8 page full-color insert • 320 Pages • HISTORY
“Dolin’s firm grasp of the 19th-century maritime world is undeniable. . . . This is a masterly account of a historical event.”—Bill Heavey, Wall Street Journal
In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812. With deft narrative skill, Dolin vividly describes the increasingly desperate existence of castaways during their harrowing eighteen-month ordeal—an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail. A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout, Left for Dead offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.
“A deeply engrossing tale with a delightfully twisty plot. . . . Anyone who read David Grann’s The Wager with profit will relish this sprawling sea story.”— Bookreporter.com
“It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that Dolin’s saga has as many twists and turns as a route through the mazy South Atlantic archipelago. . . . The author of several previous books on such maritime topics as piracy and whaling, Dolin is an expert literary steersman.”—Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post
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Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan, Rebels at Sea, and Black Flags, Blue Waters. He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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“A captivating castaway tale. Left for Dead is highly recommended.”—Chris Szepessy, WindCheck Magazine
“An absorbing adventure that explores the dark shadows of instinct and self-preservation, and the hardships and stress that stretch the bonds of humanity.”—Stephen R. Bown, author of Island of the Blue Foxes
“It's an edge-of-your-seat adventure.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“With twists and turns on nearly every page… Left for Dead is an incredible true story long overdue for exposure in the modern age, and Eric Jay Dolin does not disappoint.” Quarterdeck
“A work that will captivate a readership built from his many fans and all readers enamored of true tales of the high seas.”—Booklist
“No one writes maritime history with as much passion and vibrancy as Eric Jay Dolin. Left For Dead… is narrative history (and natural history) of the highest caliber.”—Buddy Levy, author of Empire of Ice and Stone
Impossible Monsters
Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
Michael Taylor
$21.99 paperback | Can. $28.99 • CQ 24 Territory C • ISBN 9781324096726 • 5½ x 8¼ 40 illustrations • 512 Pages • HISTORY
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), Impossible Monsters weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.
When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact unearthed the first Ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years—as more “impossible monsters” emerged from the soil, and scholars began to identify internal inconsistencies in the Scriptures—everything changed. In this “stunning work of popular history” (Steve Brusatte), celebrated young historian Michael Taylor brings the dawn of paleontology to epic life, revealing the central role of dinosaurs in liberating science from religion.
“Amazing.”—Michael J. Benton
“Michael Taylor tells the story of the collision of science and religion . . . with authority, wit, and verve. A delight.”—Peter Frankopan
“Taylor’s discussions of Huxley and Darwin are among the best sections in his ambitious, readable, and informative book.”—Brenda Wineapple, Atlantic
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Michael Taylor is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His first book, The Interest, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Boys and Oil
Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Taylor Brorby
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory M • ISBN 9781324096788 • 5½ x 8¼ 9 illustrations • 352 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A searing coming-of-age memoir that “reminds us . . . that being gay can still be an oppressive and burdensome secret to carry” (Diana Ossana, Oscar–winning screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain
Center, North Dakota, is a place where people only end up, where men fill the pews on Sunday and the bars on Monday. Growing up in a trailer on the city’s south side, Taylor Brorby knew he was different from the other boys in his hometown, who drank and taunted and terrorized him until he learned to escape—first to the prairie and library, then out of North Dakota entirely. Now an environmentalist, Brorby reflects on his childhood and coming out, casting the West as a place of vulnerability. A “story of beauty and brokenness” (Terry Tempest Williams), Boys and Oil is at once a love song to allies and a sober portrait of the work we still have left to do.
“Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight.”—Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review
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Taylor Brorby is an essayist and poet. The coeditor of Fracture, his work has appeared in the Huffington Post, Orion, and North American Review, where he is a contributing editor.
Swimming Pretty
The Untold Story of Women in Water
Vicki Valosik
$21.99 paperback | Can. $28.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096894 • 5½ x 8¼ 60 illustrations • 432 Pages • SPORTS & RECREATION
A groundbreaking history of how women found power in water, written “with the precision and grace of an Esther Williams tableau” (Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times
Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers—none more so than synchronized swimmers. In this revelatory history, Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance for the first time, from Victorian variety theater to the modern Olympic arena. “With firsthand knowledge, diligent research, and colorful prose” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Swimming Pretty finally honors early starlets like Esther Williams and dozens of lesser-known bathing beauties who paved the way for an altogether new sport—and forever changed women’s relationships with water.
“An astonishingly comprehensive account of women’s aquatic pursuits.”—Sophia Stewart, Atlantic
“[An] enlightening, well-researched history.”—Sarah L. Kaufman, Wall Street Journal
“Swimming Pretty plunges into the colorful, entertaining, inspiring, and sometimes enraging history of strong women who fought for athletic joy and the right to compete. . . . It will leave you breathless.”—Danielle Dreilinger
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Vicki Valosik is a masters synchronized swimmer whose writing has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, and Slate. She is an editorial director and teaches writing at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Villa E A Novel Jane Alison
$17.99 paperback | Can. $23.99 • CQ 48 Territory M • ISBN 9781324096719 • 5½ x 8¼ 192 Pages • FICTION
Two brilliant architects clash over the fate of a luxurious villa in this “irresistible tale of beauty, obsession, and hubris” (Nancy Horan).
Along the glittering coast of southern France, amongst a jungle of olive trees and aloes, a white villa rose from an earthen terrace. Eileen, a new architect previously known for her elegant chairs and furniture, built it as a haven for her and her lover When the outspoken Le G, a founder of Modernist architecture, first laid eyes on the house, he could see his influence in the sleek lines. Affronted and impassioned, he took a paintbrush to the villa’s clean, white walls. . . .
Inspired by the real-life collision of Irish designer Eileen Gray and famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and the extraordinary place that bound them, Jane Alison boldly reimagines a now-infamous feud into a lushly poetic and mesmerizing novel of power, predation, and obsession.
“Jane Alison writes sentences that are as hypnotic and lyric as the sea.”—Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise
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Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist, The Sisters Antipodes, and the craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, among other titles. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
American Zion A New
History of Mormonism
Benjamin E. Park
“Promises to stand the test of time as the definitive history of Mormonism.”—Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830; it quickly became, and remains to this day, the most significant homegrown religion in American history. In this authoritative work, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to present a fresh, sweeping account of the Latter-day Saints: from the flight to Utah Territory in 1847 to the public renunciation of polygamy in 1890; from the leadership’s alliance with the Republican Party following the New Deal to the “Mormon moment” and presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney in 2012; and into the Saints’ divided present. A triumph of storytelling and expertise, American Zion will endure as a definitive treatment of one of the great success stories this nation has seen.
“American Zion . . . is a single-volume history representative of the maturity of Mormonism as a religion and of Mormon studies as a field, accessible and relevant to outsiders as well as the faithful, making full and innovative use of a range of sources.”—Seth Perry, Times Literary Supplement
“A monumental achievement.”—Conor Hilton, Association for Mormon Letters
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Benjamin E. Park is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. The author of American Nationalisms and Kingdom of Nauvoo, he has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and Houston Chronicle. He lives in Conroe, Texas.
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States
Erwin Chemerinsky
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096887 • 5½ x 8¼ 12 illustrations • 240 Pages • HISTORY
One of America’s foremost legal scholars audaciously asserts that the only way to avoid secession is to draft a new Constitution.
The Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Without major changes, writes Erwin Chemerinsky, it is beyond redemption. Yet just fifteen of the 11,848 amendments proposed since 1789 have passed. In a groundbreaking work that “pushes the tradition of constitutional criticism to new heights” (Samuel Goldman, Wall Street Journal), Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley School of Law, asserts with exceptional clarity that we must rewrite the Constitution from start to finish—or else face the very real possibility of secession.
“[This book] is must-reading.”—Martha Minow
“If it’s hard to amend the Constitution, it’s hard even to imagine starting over with a new one . . . but that’s what [Chemerinsky has] done in this book.”—Jon Wiener, Nation
“The prospect of secession sounds extreme, but in suggesting that the Constitution could hasten the end of American democracy, Chemerinsky is far from alone.”— Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
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Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. The author of Presumed Guilty, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, and The Case Against the Supreme Court, among many other works, he lives in Oakland, California.
Quincas Borba A
Novel Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson
A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired critique of nineteenth-century Brazil.
Hailed in his lifetime as Brazil’s greatest writer, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) has found a new generation of readers through the acclaimed translations by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. Now, the duo returns with the irreverent, ambitious, and darkly funny Quincas Borba. Originally published in 1891, Quincas Borba begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism.” Borba leaves his fortune—including his dog, also named Quincas Borba—to Rubião, his loyal caretaker. Adrift in the big, bad, bustling world of late 1860s Rio de Janeiro, Rubião is soon targeted by the city’s sycophants who can smell his naïveté from a mile away.
Playfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, Quincas Borba is another strikingly modern tale from a progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.
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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the groundbreaking author of such works as Dom Casmurro and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
White Poverty
How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
William J. Barber, With Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
$18.99 paperback | Can. $24.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096757 • 5½ x 8¼ 12 illustrations • 288 Pages • SOCIAL SCIENCE
“This book has never been more necessary.”—Pete Buttigieg, author
of Shortest Way Home
The publication of White Poverty exposed the pernicious myth in the United States that poverty is synonymous with Black skin. Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the poor and the “closest person we have to Dr. King” (Cornel West), along with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, explains that there are forty million more poor white people than Black people in the US. Barber and Wilson-Hartgrove’s groundbreaking work provides astute historical analyses of unlivable wages, inaccessible and unequal healthcare, unaffordable education, and the very definition of poverty itself, regardless of skin color.
Ultimately, White Poverty exposes a long legacy of historical neglect that provides “a biracial and multiethnic force for economic reform that is within reach” (Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law).
“A powerful and irresistible vision of another path for America.”—Representative Jamie Raskin
“White Poverty reminded me that poverty is color-blind.”—Terry Edmonds, Washington Monthly
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Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II is a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. President of Repairers of the Breach, Barber led the Poor People’s Campaign's March on Washington in June 2024. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is founder of the School for Conversion and assistant director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.
Watford Forever
How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town, and Each Other
John Preston and Elton John
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory T • ISBN 9781324096870 • 5½ x 8¼ 16 page one-color insert • 336 Pages • SPORTS & RECREATION
The unforgettable story of Watford Football Club’s rise from the Fourth to the First Division, led by its rock starturned-owner Elton John and hard-nosed Hornets manager Graham Taylor.
Long before English soccer became an American passion, Watford Football Club, a ragtag team from an industrial town north of London, languished at the bottom of the English Football League. Despite its pitiful record, the club enthralled a young Reginald Dwight, so much so that in 1976, Dwight—then known by his stage name Elton John—bought the team and, together with iconic manager Graham Taylor, revived the sputtering franchise. By turns inspiring and funny, Watford Forever is a heartrending tribute to soccer’s unlikeliest duo, who both beat the odds to save a club and a community.
“If John Preston hasn’t already sold the film rights to this book, he surely will soon.”
—Robert Crampton, Times (UK)
“I finished Watford Forever, John Preston’s excellent new book . . . feeling an unexpectedly profound sense of loss. . . . The heart of the story of Watford’s rise through the divisions under Taylor is one of pure egalitarianism.”—Simon Burnton, Guardian
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John Preston, the best-selling author of A Very English Scandal and Fall, was the Sunday Telegraph’s television critic and one of its chief feature writers for ten years. He lives in London. Elton John is among an elite group of EGOT winners, including six Grammys, a Tony, two Oscars, and an Emmy, among many other honors and accolades. The honorary lifetime president of Watford FC, he was chairman of the club from 1976 to 1987 and 1997 to 2002. He lives in England.