Shakespeare and Modern Culture: Marjorie Garber, one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars and author of Shakespeare After All, delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationship between Shakespeare and 20th century and contemporary culture. A tour de force study of our own mental and emotional landscape as reflected in and through protean “Shakespeare.”

Things I’ve Been Silent About: Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution.

War and Peace: “A major new translation . . . [which] brings us the palpability [of Tolstoy's characters] as perhaps never before. . . . Pevear and Volokhonsky's new translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book.” —James Wood, The New Yorker

Napoleon in Egypt: Timothy Ryback turns Hitler’s reading into a way of reading Hitler—his mind, his obsessions, his evolution. It’s an original and provocative work that adds valuable context to the skeletal and mystifying historical record.”
—Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler

Young Che: “A timely source of vivid insights into [the key influences] that turned this young man into the world’s most recognizable revolutionary.”
—The Latin American Review of Books

“Burton Raffel has done a masterful job of carrying Chaucer into modern, highly readable English while retaining the rhythm and formal charm that so distinguish The Canterbury Tales. This new translation beckons us to make our own pilgrimage back to the very wellsprings of literature in our language.”
—Billy Collins