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Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts
The Roof Garden Commission
An engaging exploration of multidisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte’s site-specific 2021 installation on The Met’s Roof Garden Known for his use of familiar objects, icons, and brands in surprising and surreal...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New...
What May Come
The Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Mexican Political Print
Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Art Workshop) sought to create prints, posters, and illustrated publications that were popular and affordable, accessible and politically...
Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot
The Roof Garden Commission
A book that documents Alicja Kwade’s 2019 Roof Garden commission at The Met—large-scale sculptures that reference celestial bodies Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international...
The Heroic Slave
A Cultural and Critical Edition
Frederick Douglass’s only work of fiction—an imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American history—accompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass...
Inadvertent
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Written by Himself
Critical Edition
One of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history, now available in a critical edition“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition...
Walden
A Fully Annotated Edition
The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars"Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this...
Existentialism Is a Humanism
A fresh translation of two seminal works of existentialism"To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand something important about the present time."—Iris Murdoch "Sartre matters because so...
José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside
Bilingual (Spanish/English)José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913), one of Mexico’s most important graphic artists, influenced the generation who lived through and pictured the Mexican Revolution. His powerful and visually...
