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The Illusion of Control
Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail. Finance brings prosperity and danger. We use...
Competitive Arms Control
Nixon, Kissinger, and SALT, 1969-1972
The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic nuclear advantage over the Soviet Union,...
Franz Kafka
The Drawings
The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings The year 2019 brought a sensational discovery: hundreds of drawings by the writer Franz Kafka...
Perceptual Drift
Black Art and an Ethics of Looking
A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland...
Kimono Style
Edo Traditions to Modern Design
The untold modern history of the Japanese kimono and its dynamic relationship to Western culture Though often presented as an unchanging, traditional costume in the West, the Japanese kimono dynamically evolved from...
George Grosz in Berlin
The Relentless Eye
A penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling...
Rodin in the United States
Confronting the Modern
A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience This exhibition catalogue explores the American reception of French artist Auguste Rodin (1840...
The Literary Mafia
Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature
An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous In the 1960s and 1970s, complaints about a ...
Raphael
A definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483–1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most...
The Northern Silence
Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture
An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors...