The Secret Public
How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream
Jon Savage
$35.00 hardcover | Can. $47.00 • CQ 12 Territory T • ISBN 9781324096108 • 6¼ x 9¼ 36 illustrations • 768 Pages • HISTORY
The legendary author of England’s Dreaming presents a monumental history of the queer influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979.
In his kaleidoscopic new book, Jon Savage, the legendary author of England’s Dreaming, shows how music has been the key medium through which homosexuality was expressed for much of the last half century. Depicting nothing less than the birth of rock and roll, the narrative begins in the mid-1950s with Little Richard, whose music possessed secret codes of the gay underworld and whose magnetism attracted millions of white teenagers. As Savage engagingly proceeds through the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with evocations of, among others, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Donna Summer, Sylvester, and the disco-era Bee Gees, he demonstrates that it was mostly music—with supporting roles from cinema, literature, and fashion—that broke the dam that led to the widespread acceptance of LGBTQ culture today The Secret Public, with its “pancake and pompadour” descriptions of a generation in revolt, provides an electrifying look at the key moments in music and entertainment that changed pop culture forever
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Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “the definitive history of the English punk movement,” England’s Dreaming established Jon Savage as one of the foremost pop culture historians of his generation The winner of the Ralph J Gleason prize, he lives in North Wales.
The Word of Dog
What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life
Mark Rowlands
$26.99 hardcover | Can. $35.99 • CQ 48 Territory M • ISBN 9781324095682 • 5½ x 8¼ 272 Pages • PHILOSOPHY
A heartwarming philosophical meditation on how to live a fulfilling life—inspired by the inherent happiness of dogs.
If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog’s life but yours as well—to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is.
In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints—faint, shrouded, but discernible—of what a better way of living might look like. Perhaps none of us can be happy in the way a dog can, but The Word of Dog shows us we could do a lot better than we’re doing simply by listening to the unspoken wisdom our dogs reveal to us every day of their happy, uncomplicated lives.
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Mark Rowlands is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Miami. He is the author of twenty-three books, including the international bestseller The Philosopher and the Wolf. He lives in Miami, Florida.
Mona Acts Out
A Novel
Mischa Berlinski
Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow (“I forgot the parsley!” is her lame excuse) to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded amid accusations of sexual misconduct. Mona’s escape turns into an overnight adventure that brings her face-to-face with her past, with her creative power and its limitations, and ultimately, with all the people she has ever loved.
Beguilingly approachable and intricately constructed, at once funny and sad and wise, Mona Acts Out is a novel about acting and telling the truth, about how we play roles to get through our days, and how the great roles teach us how to live.
Mischa Berlinski is the author of Fieldwork, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Peacekeeping. He has written for the New York Review of Books, Men’s Journal, and Harper’s Magazine, and his writing has appeared in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Istanbul.
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An exuberant, deeply moving novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Fieldwork.
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque, Translated by Kurt Beals
$26.99 hardcover | Can. $35.99 • CQ 24 Territory Y • ISBN 9781324006930 • 5½ x 8¼ 240 Pages • FICTION
The greatest war novel of all time rendered in a taut, muscular, and urgent new translation.
An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been adapted for film, television, and other media; has influenced all subsequent works of war literature; and has been taught in high school and college classes ever since.
Until now, one translation—published in 1929, and very much a product of its time— has introduced most readers in English to Remarque’s wrenching portrait of the horrors of trench warfare. Now, nearly a century later, renowned translator Kurt Beals recaptures the energy and descriptive force of the German original, rendering Remarque’s distinctly terse, telegraphic prose into a contemporary idiom, conveying for a new generation the immediacy and intensity of this classic novel.
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Kurt Beals is visiting associate professor of German and humanities fellow in literary translation at the University of Richmond. He has translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Hermann Hesse, and Reiner Stach, among others. He lives in Virginia. Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) was one the best-selling German-born authors of the twentieth century. All Quiet on the Western Front was his best-known and most widely read work.
T. Haiver
We Tell Ourselves Stories
Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
Alissa Wilkinson
$29.99 hardcover | Can. $39.99 • CQ 24 Territory M • ISBN 9781324092612 • 6 x 9 272 Pages • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion’s cultural influence through the lens of American mythmaking in Hollywood.
With bylines spanning six decades, Joan Didion’s legacy towers over the landscape of American letters. Although she launched her career in New York City, she soon struck out for Los Angeles, where the nation’s dreams were manufactured—and every aspect of her work reflected what she saw there, whether she was writing on politics, society, or herself. In this riveting cultural biography, Wilkinson takes a fresh perspective on Didion’s career as a novelist, critic, and screenwriter deeply embroiled in the grit and glamour of Hollywood. In eloquent prose, she charts how Didion became intimately acquainted with power players of the Los Angeles elite, arriving in the twilight of the old studio system in time to see lines between the industry and public life blur. Peering through a scrim of celluloid, Wilkinson incisively dissects the motifs and machinations that informed Didion’s writing—and how her writing, ultimately, demonstrated Hollywood’s addictive grasp on American identity.
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Alissa Wilkinson is a film critic at the New York Times and was formerly a senior correspondent and critic at Vox. Her previous book, Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women, was published in 2022. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Victorian Psycho
A Novel Virginia Feito
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines, and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past. When her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning, Winifred is finally ready to deliver on her generous gifts. Wielding her signature sardonic wit and a penchant for the gorgeously macabre, Virginia Feito returns with a vengeance in Victorian Psycho.
Virginia Feito, raised in Madrid and Paris, studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London and advertising at Miami Ad School. She writes regularly for Vanity Fair Spain and is the author of the acclaimed Mrs. March.
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From the devious author of Mrs. March comes a gruesome and gleeful new novel that probes the psyche of a bloodthirsty governess.
Seven Social Movements That Changed America Linda Gordon
$39.99 hardcover | Can. $53.99 • CQ 16 Territory M • ISBN 9781631493713 • 6¼ x 9¼ 24 illustrations • 512 Pages • HISTORY
A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.
How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinizes the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era movements follow—the Townsend campaign that brought us Social Security and the creation of unemployment aid. Proceeding then to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, which inspired the civil rights movement and launched Martin Luther King Jr.’s career, the narrative barrels into the 1960s–70s with Cesar Chavez’s farmworkers’ union. The concluding chapter illumines the 1970s women’s liberation movement through the dramatic story of the Boston-area organizations Bread and Roses and the Combahee River Collective. Separately and together, these seven chapters animate American history, reminding us of the power of collective activism.
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Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of The Second Coming of the KKK and a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange. She lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin.
Shahnameh
The Epic of the Persian Kings Ferdowsi, Edited by Melissa Hibbard and Hamid Rahmanian, Translated by Ahmad Sadri, Introduction by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$42.00 hardcover | Can. $56.00 • CQ 12 Territory W • ISBN 9781324093800 • 6¼ x 9¼ 30 illustrations • 608 Pages • FICTION
A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.
A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh is a classic work by one of Persia’s greatest poets. Written more than 1,000 years ago in a series of 50,000 elegant couplets, Ferdowsi’s work protected the Persian collective memory and its language amidst a turbulent sea of cultural storms. Indeed, this beloved epic traces the storied history of the Persian people beginning with the origin myths of civilization and ending with the Muslim conquest of Iran in the seventh century. Featuring a preface by editor and Guggenheim Fellow Hamid Rahmanian, this lush translation by Ahmad Sadri renders the tale in highly accessible prose for contemporary audiences. Readers will be swept away by captivating adventures filled with superhuman heroes, magical creatures, heart-wrenching love stories, and centuries-long battles.
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Melissa Hibbard is a writer/producer and cofounder of Kingorama’s Shahnameh Project, also based in New York. Hamid Rahmanian is a John Guggenheim Fellow and multidisciplinary artist based in New York. An Iranian sociologist and translator, Ahmad Sadri is a professor of Islamic world studies, sociology, and anthropology at Lake Forest College, and lives in Illinois.
The Ephemera Collector
A Novel
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
In near-future Los Angeles, Xandria Brown works diligently as an archivist at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Descended from a family of obsessive collectors who took part in the Great Migration, Xandria has always been passionate about the art of curation and preservation, especially of seemingly useless African American ephemera. But while juggling multiple projects, her neurocognitive symptoms of long COVID are worsening, as her healthbot keeps having to remind her. When the Huntington unexpectedly goes into lockdown, Xandria must rely on her adaptive technology and her own flickering intuition to preserve her life’s work—the Diwata Collection. A strikingly original saga written in lyrical prose, The Ephemera Collector announces Stacy Nathaniel Jackson as a singular new voice in fiction.
Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a trans poet, playwright, and visual artist whose work has appeared in Electric Literature, Georgia Review, and New American Writing, among other publications. He currently resides in Washington, DC.
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In this epic Afrofuturist debut, an archivist finds herself the target of a violent plot and must rely on the help of her AI assistive technologies.
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
Reconstruction,
1860-1920
Manisha Sinha
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096283 • 6¼ x 9¼ 53 illustrations • 592 Pages • HISTORY
“Sinha not only has taken on this vast subject, but has greatly expanded its definition, both temporally and spatially. . . . She covers these difficult issues with remarkable skill and clarity.” ―S. C. Gwynne, New York Times Book Review
In her magisterial Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha rewrites our understanding of Reconstruction, perhaps the most consequential period in this nation’s history. Breaking new ground, she demonstrates how the Civil War, the overthrow of Reconstruction, the conquest of the West, labor conflict in the North, Chinese exclusion, women’s suffrage, and the establishment of an overseas American empire were all part of a single struggle between the forces of democracy and those of reaction. Sinha highlights the critical role of black people in redefining American citizenship and governance, showing that Reconstruction, despite its failure, laid the foundation of our modern democracy.
“An ambitious and expansive history. . . . Sinha captures Reconstruction as a sweeping epic of lofty aspirations and impressive achievement by black Americans and their white allies.” ―Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal
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Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize among several others and was long listed for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Private Notebooks
1914-1916
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Translated by Marjorie Perloff
$17.99 paperback | Can. $23.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096290 • 5½ x 8¼ 240 Pages • PHILOSOPHY
Now in paperback, the first-ever English translation of Wittgenstein’s wartime diaries—“a searing document of thought from a very dark time” (Percival Everett).
Upon learning that the wartime diaries of Ludwig Wittgenstein had never before appeared in English, the late Marjorie Perloff (1931–2024) determinedly set about translating them.
Beginning in the anxious summer of 1914, Private Notebooks provides an unprecedented portrait of the philosopher as a young man, richly contextualizing his magnum opus, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—arguably the most important work of twentieth-century philosophy. Framed by Perloff’s eloquent introduction and afterword, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery much as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.
“[Wittgenstein] possessed a virtue rarer than cleverness: that of depth. . . . Even now, seven decades after his death, his conduct and character continue to invite lively speculation.” —The New Yorker, “Best Books of 2022”
“[Wittgenstein’s wartime] transformation comes across as bewildering and almost unbearably moving. The notebooks show the circumstances in which Wittgenstein’s mystical turn toward the end of the Tractatus was born.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was a world-renowned Austrian-British philosopher. Born in Vienna, Austria, Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University, and the author of sixteen books.
Just Action
Creating a Movement That Can End Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law
Leah Rothstein and Richard Rothstein
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096177 • 5½ x 8¼ 15 black-and-white illustrations • 352 Pages • SOCIAL SCIENCE
The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.
In The Color of Law, the landmark work that has sold one million copies, Richard Rothstein demolished the segregation myth that Black and white Americans live separately by choice. In Just Action, he and Leah Rothstein offer programs that racial justice supporters and wider readers can undertake in their own communities to address historical inequities and press local firms and governments to take responsibility for reversing harms of the past. This book “will change minds, inspire public will, and revive communities” (Reverend Natosha Reid Rice, vice president of Habitat for Humanity International).
“[Just Action] is admirably light on self-righteous political bromides and heavy on practicality. . . . Their guide can offer valuable history and perspective.” —Mark Whitaker, Washington Post
“Just Action is just the book we need right now.” —Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at The New Yorker and former dean of the Columbia School of Journalism
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Richard Rothstein, the author of The Color of Law and father of coauthor Leah Rothstein, has written many books and articles on educational policy and racial inequality. Leah Rothstein’s expertise in housing policy stems from more than two decades of experience as a consultant to affordable housing developers and local governments and as a community and union organizer. They each live in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
Last On His Feet
Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
Youssef Daoudi and Adrian Matejka
$22.99 paperback | Can. $29.99 • CQ 16 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096139 • 7 x 9¼ 336 Pages • COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
“An experience so immersive you can almost smell blood and sweat coming from the pages. This is a masterpiece.”
―Jason Reynolds
A groundbreaking graphic portrait hailed for its “stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations” (Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian), Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century. On July 4, 1910, Jack Johnson, the world’s first Black heavyweight champion, was paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the “great white hope.” Artist Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka intersperse dramatic boxing action with vivid flashbacks to reveal how Johnson, the self-educated son of formerly enslaved parents, reached the pinnacle of sport—all while facing down the crowds of spectators rooting against him and a racist American justice system at the height of the Jim Crow era.
“A must-read for sport and history fans alike.” ―Andrew Aydin, coauthor of March and Run
“Uncommonly propulsive [and] completely immersive.” ―Library Journal, starred review
“A knockout.” ––Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Youssef Daoudi, a comic artist, writer, and illustrator, is the author of Monk! He is an Eisner Awards nominee and was previously an art director for multinational advertising firms. Adrian Matejka, former poet laureate of Indiana, is the author of the award-winning collection The Big Smoke and is editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine.
King Nyx A Novel Kirsten Bakis
A haunting mystery about the fate of women and girls in the orbit of self-important men.
Set in November of 1918 on the opulent, castlelike island estate of an eccentric millionaire, this atmospheric, compellingly readable novel reimagines the life of Anna Fort—whose husband, Charles Fort, was the most famous “anomalist” of the early twentieth century. Settling in as guests on Prosper Island, the young couple find themselves quarantined in a shabby outpost far from Mr. Arkel’s mansion—from which, they learn, three girls have gone missing. After she encounters a figure in the woods that may be the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, Anna resolves to find out who Mr. Arkel really is, and what has become of the missing girls.
“Bakis’ latest novel has the pacing and suspense of a smart literary thriller: it’s almost impossible to put down once you’ve started it.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Bakis creates an atmosphere of gut-churning dread from the first chapter King Nyx is a scary good book.” —Arlene McKanic, BookPage
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Kirsten Bakis teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Her previous novel, Lives of the Monster Dogs, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel, and was shortlisted for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in New York's lower Hudson Valley.
Four Thousand Paws
Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story
Lee Morgan
$18.99 paperback | Can. $24.99 • CQ 36 Territory M • ISBN 9781324096153 • 5½ x 8¼ 24 illustrations • 304 Pages • NATURE
An intimate account—the first from a trail veterinarian— of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod.
Each March, despite subzero temperatures and whiteout winds, hundreds of dogs and dozens of mushers journey to Anchorage, Alaska, to participate in “The Last Great Race on Earth,” a grueling, thousand-mile race across the Alaskan wilderness. In Four Thousand Paws, award-winning veterinarian Lee Morgan—a member of the Iditarod’s expert veterinary corps—finally “gives us a glimpse of the stories behind the scenes” (Blair Braverman), showing how these fierce competitors surmount the dangers of the Arctic, and how, as in any team sport, distinct personalities among the sled dogs create moments of rivalry, defeat, camaraderie, and, ultimately, triumph.
“This is easily my favorite read of the year.” —Terry Lynn Johnson, best-selling author of Ice Dogs
“Engaging. . . . [Dr. Morgan] puts to rest any argument about how inhumane the race is. From extensive pre-race physical exams to almost-daily health checks, the dogs’ health and safety, Dr. Morgan makes clear, is the top concern.” —Mark Yost, Wall Street Journal
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Lee Morgan A longtime veterinarian, Lee Morgan runs his own practice in Washington, D.C. For over a decade, Morgan has treated dogs on-site at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife and children.
Schoenberg Why He Matters Harvey Sachs
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 36 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096191 • 5½ x 8¼ 10 illustrations • 272 Pages • MUSIC
An engaging and lyrical account, Schoenberg “makes a compelling case for some of the most difficult and intimidating music ever written” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post).
In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Yet today, leading orchestras rarely play his works. With this interpretative account, acclaimed music historian Harvey Sachs finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful canonical place—alongside Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mahler—as the composer who resolved what he perceived as the most severe musical dilemma of his time: the crisis of atonality. Blending “fleet-footed biography with an accessible analysis of Schoenberg’s works” (The New Yorker), this engaging account powerfully argues that Schoenberg’s compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music.
“There’s real pleasure to be found in the way Sachs writes about [music].” —Christopher Carroll, Harper’s Magazine
“An immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly controversial and chronically misunderstood giant of 20th-century music. . . . Sachs can be refreshingly candid . . . as if he were whispering confidentially in your ear during a concert intermission.” —John Adams, New York Times Book Review
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Harvey Sachs is the author or coauthor of eleven books, including Toscanini and Music in Fascist Italy. He lives in New York City and is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
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The Invention of Prehistory
Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Stefanos Geroulanos
$19.99 paperback | Can. $25.99 • CQ 24 Territory W • ISBN 9781324096122 • 5½ x 8¼ 101 images • 512 Pages • HISTORY
incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory.
It’s a must-read.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
From Rousseau’s idea of a state of nature to Romantic notions of German barbarians as saviors of Europe to current investigations into the true nature of Neanderthals, humanity has been obsessed with prehistory for three centuries now. In this trenchant work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture but produced our modern world. He captures the variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—and the repressive, sweeping empires in which they lived. As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than about our past―and if we hope to improve our future, that may mean setting aside the quest for how it all started.
“Stunningly comprehensive. . . . Consistently illuminating. . . . An astute, powerfully rendered history of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This is intellectual history as it should be written.” —Pankaj Mishra, author of Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
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Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and a Professor of History at New York University. The author of Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present and other books, he lives in New York, NY.
Muse of Fire
World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
Michael Korda
The First World War comes to harrowing life in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire
With this “masterful book” (Stacy Schiff), best-selling historian Michael Korda tells the story of the First World War through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets— Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Wilfred Owen—who both described and came to embody the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury. As Korda demonstrates, these young men were heroes, martyrs, and victims, their lives and loves endlessly fascinating, if all too brief. At once an engaging group portrait and a narrative of a civilization destroying itself, Muse of Fire “skillfully depicts how different classes . . . experienced the Western Front,” offering “an entry point into a rich seam of under-read war poetry” (Alice Winn, New York Times Book Review).
“Korda, keenly attuned to the nuances of Britain’s class system and its overlapping literary circles, excels at tracing the bonds of acquaintance, collegiality, amity, and sometimes physical attraction that knit these men to one another.” —Julia Klein, Washington Post
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Michael Korda participated in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. He is the author of major biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Robert E. Lee., as well as the bestselling memoir Charmed Lives.