“Unexpected… gripping… prescient.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Shocking… captivating… timely.” —KIRKUS (*)
“What Merchants of Doubt did for earlier campaigns of corporate disinformation, How to Sell a Poison does, superbly." —ADAM HOCHSCHILD
“[An] astonishing masterpiece… No more important book about the Constitution has appeared in a hundred years—if ever.” —SAMUEL MOYN
“Reveal[s] a tragically flawed document and generations of critics for whom the U.S. Constitution was an obstacle to democracy, a safeguard of white settler rule, and a barrier to universal freedom… A genuine masterpiece.” —ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
* NEW YORK TIMES Critics’ Top Books of 2021 *
“Superb history.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“Extraordinary… powerful.” —Ibram X. Kendi
Mia Bay, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Belknap Press, 2021.
"Remarkable and timely... invaluable." —ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
“Rigorous and jaw-dropping... An explosive contribution from a brilliant young scholar.” –NAOMI KLEIN
"The best modern workplace ethnography that I've ever read." —Robert I. Sutton
"Invaluable." —MALCOLM HARRIS
“Vivid… offer[s] policymakers, labor organizers, and community activists insights.”—RUTH WILSON GILMORE
"Compel[s] a reader to feel the era’s anguish and urgency... give[s] the activists’ trajectory a novel’s momentum… an important contribution to the annals of AIDS.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“Fascinating... thrilling... captivating.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“Totally compelling… Immediately read this book.” —MAGGIE NELSON
“Illuminating... brilliantly untangles the interwoven threads of colonialism, racism, and capitalism." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“A brilliance we’ve seldom seen or imagined… a new standard in book-making.” —KIESE LAYMON
"I began this book as an anthropologist, but a few pages in, realized I was reading it as the little Black boy who acquired a chronic respiratory illness while growing up in Baltimore… I wish we had Ahmann's book back then… Written with empathy and backed by rigorous analysis, Futures after Progress is a revelation." —LAURENCE RALPH
“This underdog story is a delight.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Informed, thought-provoking.” — KIRKUS
Brian Lowery, Selfless: The Social Creation of “You.” Harper, 3/28/23.
“Playful, myth-busting… Enlivened by Feltman’s keen sense of humor and affirmational tone… entertaining and informative” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rachel Feltman, Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex. Bold Type Books, 5/17/2022.
“Devastating… It’s hard to read Insane without concluding that the way the criminal justice system has dealt with mental illness is profoundly broken.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Superb… Revealing.” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Alisa Roth, Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. Basic Books, 2018
"Impressive." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Captivates... bracing and bold." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (*)
“A grand tour of the world and the mind, led by one of the world’s leading experts on emotion and culture. The journey is a joy, full of puzzles, insights, and empathy” ― Jonathan Haidt
Batja Mesquita, Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions. W. W. Norton & Company, 7/19/2022.
“Expertly mining prison records and other source materials, Ryan brings these marginalized women to vivid life. This informative, empathetic narrative is a vital contribution to LGBTQ history.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Compelling from start to finish.” —BUZZFEED
"Impeccable... Important." —SEATTLE TIMES
"A hard look at social injustices in ballet and how to end them… A vigorously reported critique." —KIRKUS
“Remarkable… an uplifting, exhilarating, fascinating journey.” –CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Riveting… a nail-biter.” –WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Spellbinding.” —SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
“A book for these times as we confront the fault lines in our democracy… a deeply provocative work .” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE
“Higgins cracks open this astonishingly dangerous sport and captures the spectacular adrenaline surges it delivers… [a] riveting tale.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
Matt Higgins, Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, Penguin Press, 2014.
“Essential.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (*)
“Nothing short of brilliant.” –Jane McGonigal
"Informative... important.” —WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Essential, smart, and cogent." —Cory Doctorow
Cyrus Farivar, Habeas Data: Privacy Vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech, Melville House, 2018.
“A rich, sprawling book.” —THE ATLANTIC
“Superb.” —Robert M. Sapolsky, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Penguin Press, 2013.
"Unique… savvy and humanistic." —Sherry Turkle, author of ALONE TOGETHER
"Marvelous." —Judy Wajcman
One of NEW YORK MAGAZINE’s “15 Books That Will Nurture Your Nerdier Side”
Benjamin Reiss, Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic Books, 2017.
A Best Book of 2014, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Groundbreaking… persuasive and comprehensive."
Phil Zuckerman, Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions, Penguin Press, 2014.
