A fable woven into the fabric of history, this poem tells the story of a Billy the Kid, who does not die in 1881 but lives to be an old man, which he calls his afterlife. Through dramatic monologues in heptameter lines with two primary narrators, Billy and a character named Alias, the poem narrates Billy’s early days and the Lincoln County War. Then the poem narrates his afterlife that includes encounters with a Yaqui leader in Mexico where he also has a surreal vision of Our Lady of Guada...

Inspired by Dante and William Blake, Secular Revelations is the third and final book of the long poem Comedy. Still in the form of a waking dream, this volume is a meditation on paradise, not as a transcendent place but as an expression of human experience and desire. It consists of poetic dialogues, some with the spirits of well-known artists and philosophers (Richard Wright, John Lennon, Norman O. Brown, Michael Cimino, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Marlon Brando), others with mo...

“Phenomenal…a jaw-dropping book.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily ShowNamed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Prospect magazine as a best book of the year, this “scrupulously reported” (The New Yorker) and “astonishing” (The Daily Telegraph**, London****)** book rivets with its portrayal of how Apple allowed itself to become d...

Comedy is a philosophical poem in the form of waking dream, inspired by Dante and William Blake. In book two, Cinematic Revolutions, the narrator, having passed through a cinema screen at the end of book one, arrives in the middle of a World War I field of dying men. An indescribable human figure appears who warns that these cinematic images are not real but projections of the cinematic mind with its power of empathy. Assuming different shapes and identities, this generic being becomes the...

*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **** WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2025 FOR BUSINESS REPORTING *What if the greatest business success story of the twenty-first century was hiding the West’s gravest mistake?For two decades, Apple poured billions into China, training millions of workers and building the most advanced supply and manufacturing system in his...

Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole; an understanding o...

The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter for one more cattle drive when he hanged three horse thieves this side of the Red River - and a blood feud erupted...A family wants revenge - no matter how just the hangings were. From attacks on the Byrnes clan to the killing o...

**2026 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINALIST“Authoritative… a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today.” – Financial Times“There’s probably no better account of China’s rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company.” – The Wall Street JournalABOUT THE BOOKThe untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.**On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepre...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThis is the story of the company that is inventing the future.Nvidia is the world’s first $5-trillion company and the most important corporation on Earth. Led by its charismatic CEO, Jensen Huang, it has gone from video ga...

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces.But th...

“Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” —Jon Meacham“Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know—American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972—into an often-surprisi...

'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIANThe epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today’s battles with Russia and China – and with the President of the United States.At ...