Now in audio!
JULIAN: The Last Pagan Emperor of Rome, by Philip Freeman. Published by Yale University Press, the audio was released by Tantor, licensed by YUP (June 2024). Philip’s works are remarkably lively and exciting to read. Here’s a little about the subject of this volume in YUP’s “Ancient Lives” series. “When we think of ancient Rome, […]
THE PARENT’S GUIDE TO BOARDING SCHOOLS, Kristin White
From education consultant White, a comprehensive insider guide to navigating the process of applying to boarding schools, including choosing the right school, the application process, sports recruiting, putting together arts and music portfolios and more. (Rowman & Littlefield, World English, 2025)
SEDUCED BY THE LIGHT is now available from Blackstone in audio!
Here’s a great review from Audiofile. SEDUCED BY THE LIGHT The Mina Miller Edison Story Alexandra Rimer, Read by Bernadette Dunne • Unabridged • JULY 2023 Blackstone Audio • Trade Ed. Blackstone Audio • Library Ed. Bernadette Dunne maintains the prim and proper formality of the Victorian era that influenced Mina Miller Edison, the second wife of […]
Celebrate Pride Month!
Michael Sadowski’s MEN I’VE NEVER BEEN was named one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Books of All Time by Book Authority, Men I’ve Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski’s odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity–and, ultimately, his sexual orientation–in order to become who he thinks he’s supposed to be. It’s incredibly […]
HOW TO ENDURE HARDSHIP: An Ancient Guide to Consolation
Classicist and translator Philip Freeman’s new translation of Boethius’ class fifth century text, The Consolation of Philosophy, showing how philosophy can help us to understand and overcome personal misfortunes and challenges, published as part of the “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” series. (Princeton University Press/World Rights/Fall 2025).
Celebrate Women’s History Month with Charity C. Elder’s POWER: The Rise of Black Women in America
“Black women are dope because they rise and are yet rising. This dopeness is not hyperbolic or symbolic—rather, it is borne of persecution that has failed to frustrate a perseverant persistence to prevail.” –Charity C. Elder, author of POWER: The Rise of Black Women in America (Skyhorse)
Black History Month Event with Charity Elder 2/2 7pm NYC
It’s Black History month, and a perfect time to read POWER: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity Elder. She will be doing an event tomorrow, 2/2, 7 pm, hosted by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Charity will be in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and celebrated radio talk […]
UNTITLED NOVEL, Marilyn Simon Rothstein
From the author of Crazy to Leave You and Husbands and Other Sharp Objects comes a new dramedy, in which a woman leaves her podiatry practice and her newly laid off husband in Florida and flies to the Berkshires to babysit her granddaughter, only to find there are already two other grandmas in town, and that her […]
THE MAKING OF MIDDLE EARTH, Christopher A. Snyder
This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien’s world. THE MAKING OF MIDDLE EARTH is now available in a revised, expanded edition from Union Square & Co (August 2022). Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new […]
FOLLOWING NATURE’S LEAD, M.D. Usher
Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Vermont M. D. Usher’s FOLLOWING NATURE’S LEAD, ancient ways of living in a dying world, drawing on the best lessons from antiquity: How can older ways of thinking help us to solve the modern world’s ecological and economic challenges? What can we learn from […]