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Our hundred-year search for dark matter
The Elephant in the Universe
The Elephant in the Universe »
Govert Schilling details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter—and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.

“A clear, wide-ranging account of one of the deepest and most fascinating mysteries in astronomy.” —Martin Rees

Saving humanity from climate catastrophe
Growth for Good
Growth for Good »
From the front lines of economics and policymaking, Alessio Terzi makes a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.

“Optimistic and compelling.”
—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

New Books in May
Not Thinking like a Liberal
Not Thinking like a Liberal »
In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, Raymond Geuss—one of the world’s most provocative philosophers—explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.
The Chevron Doctrine
The Chevron Doctrine »
The New York Review of Books raves: “Wise and illuminating… Thomas W. Merrill’s treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful.”
Heathen
Heathen »
Kathryn Gin Lum presents an innovative history that shows how the religious idea of the heathen in need of salvation undergirds American conceptions of race. Publishers Weekly calls it “nuanced and illuminating.”
New paperbacks: On Not Being Someone Else • Inky Fingers
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library: Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean • Biblical and Pastoral Poetry
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Kathryn Gin Lum
In a conversation with Anxious Bench, Kathryn Gin Lum, author of Heathen, states: “I don’t think that we can or should dismiss the significance of the ‘heathen’ ticket that is used again and again, to this day, to make greed look good.”
Coconut Colonialism • The Chinese Must Go • American Sutra • Nothing Ever Dies • A Floating Chinaman • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America • Lord Cornwallis Is Dead
“Mental Health, From Asylums to Zoloft”
Desperate Remedies

“An indisputable masterpiece.”
—Wall Street Journal

“A remarkable history of psychiatry.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Read all the raves for
Desperate Remedies »
“Peak Piketty”
A Brief History of Equality

“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”
—New York Times

Learn more about
A Brief History of Equality »
 
“Listen carefully”
The Listeners

“Smart, entertaining, and occasionally alarming.” —New Republic

“A fun read… This is a history of uneasiness and discomfort.” —History Today

Be all ears for
The Listeners »
In the News
Jen Pan at Jacobin interviews Vivek Chibber, author of The Class Matrix, about why workers do not always revolt.
Events
29 May 2022: Martin Rees (The End of Astronauts with Donald Goldsmith) at the Hay Festival »

31 May 2022: Alessio Terzi (Growth for Good) at the International Institute in Madrid »

10 June 2022: Martin Rees (The End of Astronauts with Donald Goldsmith) at the Cheltenham Science Festival »

16 June 2022: Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton (Vera Rubin) at the Library of Congress’s Made at the Library series »

21 June 2022: Sarah Dryden-Peterson (Right Where We Belong) at New York State Library »
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