February 12, 2016

The Wheel: A Great Innovation?

Read an article by Richard Bulliet, author of THE WHEEL: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS, originally published at the Innovation in Practice blog.

February 11, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: Li Ang and her “Lost Garden”

Watch an panel featuring Li Ang, author of THE LOST GARDEN, as well as her translators, Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt, and editor, Jennifer Crewe.

February 10, 2016

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Years: Striking Images From Richard W. Bulliet's THE WHEEL

“Tracking the wheel from 4000 B.C.E to the present, Bulliet argues that the traditional myth falsifies history by melding three kinds of wheel into one. Rather than a “viral” tool that changed the world, different wheels serviced particular niches–mine-cars, children’s...

February 10, 2016

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition!): Horses, Orson Welles, Just Life, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of new titles now available.

February 9, 2016

Reddit AMA With Richard W. Bulliet

Read an excerpt from a Reddit AMA by Richard W. Bulliet, author of THE WHEEL: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS.

February 4, 2016

Recipes for Cooked Books

Read an excerpt from Amit Kumar’s SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

February 3, 2016

Living Bone on Bone

Ann Burack-Weiss, author of THE LIONESS IN WINTER: WRITING AN OLD WOMAN’S LIFE, discusses the pains and joys of aging.

February 3, 2016

Due Diligence in Short Selling

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of Amit Kumar’s SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

February 2, 2016

On Reading Short Selling

Read Amit Kumar’s Preface to SHORT SELLING: FINDING UNCOMMON SHORT IDEAS.

February 2, 2016

New Book Tuesday! A History of Virility, Climate Change, and More New Titles!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available.

January 29, 2016

What Is the Common Good?

Read an excerpt from the third chapter of WHAT KIND OF CREATURES ARE WE?, by Noam Chomsky.

January 28, 2016

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Closing of the Russian Mind?

Russian Library editor Christine Dunbar reacts to “The Closing of the Russian Mind? Freedom of Expression in Putin’s Russia.”