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The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to eBooks and Harry Potter. Martin Puchner, a professor of English and comparative literature at Harvard University, tells the story both of the ideas that shaped civilization and the equally crucial technology that transmitted and preserved those ideas.
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"This book will not only thoroughly entertain everyone who reads it; it is the most immaculate takedown of slut-shaming in literature or anywhere else. Cheers, and gratitude, to the author." - Kirkus Reviews
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Sports fans will love this story of the man who became one of the 20th century's most fantastic figures. Bestselling author Jonathan Eig reveals Ali in the complexity he deserves, shedding important new light on his politics, religion, personal life, and neurological condition. Ali is a story about America, about race, about a brutal sport, and about a courageous man who shook up the world. Based on more than 500 interviews, including Ali's closest associates, and enhanced by access to thousands of pages of newly released FBI records.
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"[Richard] Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation," says sociologist William Julius Wilson of this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis.
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An audacious and powerful debut novel from an award-winning journalist, about a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place.
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A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish: They have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet; they make a venom so toxic it can kill a human in three minutes; their sting - microscopic spears that pierce with five million times the acceleration of gravity - is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. Yet until recently, jellyfish were largely ignored by science, and they remain among the most poorly understood of ocean dwellers.
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S. Chakraborty's intriguing debut (the first of a trilogy) is a rich Middle Eastern fantasy. A young con artist in eighteenth century Cairo discovers she's the last descendant of a powerful family of djinn healers. With the help of an outcast immortal warrior and a rebellious prince, she must claim her magical birthright in order to prevent a war that threatens to destroy the entire djinn kingdom.
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"Great stuff."- Stephen King
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For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, the Globe Theatre in London undertook an unparalleled journey: To take Hamlet to every country on the planet, to share this beloved play with the entire world. This tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, who takes readers along with him. From performing in sweltering deserts, ice-cold cathedrals, and heaving marketplaces, and despite food poisoning in Mexico, an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and political upheaval in Ukraine, the Globe's players pushed on.
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