Biography
A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor
A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought
How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis
The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life
A timely and provocative account of the Bible’s role in one of the most consequential episodes in the history of slavery
A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel
The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism
A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast
An illuminating biography of one of the greatest geometers of the twentieth century
A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture
A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers
From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays
From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo
The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer “Michael Field”—the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partners
A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum