History
City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York
Hardback
A powerful history of New York’s transformation from a city of middle-class aspiration to one of entrenched inequality
Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
Hardback
The thrilling story of the nineteenth century’s moonshot: An Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Hardback
An astonishing true story–one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century–told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (The Washington Post)
The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
Paperback
An unprecedented, meticulously reported account of our prehistoric ancestors, the recently discovered “Third Man” cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
Hardback
A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New Statesman
A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed.