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We are thrilled to announce Verb Your Enthusiasm! ✏️✏️✏️An elegant guide to the promise, power, and poetry of verbs, fro...
01/08/2026

We are thrilled to announce Verb Your Enthusiasm! ✏️✏️✏️

An elegant guide to the promise, power, and poetry of verbs, from Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Sarah L. Kaufman

Verbs are the underrated stars of the English language. They hold it all together. A complete sentence cannot exist without one, yet a single verb can create complete meaning. (See?) In this brilliant exploration of language, grammar, and style, Sarah L. Kaufman illuminates how all of us, professional writers and novices alike, can master the art of the verb and unlock the infinite potential of written expression. ✍️✍️✍️

Learn more at https://sarahlkaufman.com/

Now in paperback: Award-winning war correspondent Luke Mogelson chronicles the unraveling of American democracy in The S...
01/06/2026

Now in paperback: Award-winning war correspondent Luke Mogelson chronicles the unraveling of American democracy in The Storm Is Here. What began as an assignment on right-wing militias in Michigan carried Mogelson across a nation in crisis, from racial justice uprisings in Minneapolis and street clashes in Portland to an attempted insurrection in Washington, D.C. It builds month by month through vivid depictions of events on the ground, from the onset of COVID-19 to the attack on the U.S. Capitol—when Mogelson followed the mob into the Senate chamber—and its echoes in Donald Trump’s return to power five years later. A powerful eyewitness account, marking five years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“Searingly captures a country being torn apart both by phantom grievances and by genuine social injustice.” —The New Yorker

Coming January 20: The Elements of Power by Nicolas Niarchos. This urgent, eye-opening book pulls back the curtain on th...
12/18/2025

Coming January 20: The Elements of Power by Nicolas Niarchos. This urgent, eye-opening book pulls back the curtain on the war for the world’s battery metals—materials that make our clean-energy future possible but have left behind a trail of exploitation, pollution, and geopolitical upheaval. Niarchos follows the supply chain from treacherous Congolese mines to the front lines of US-China competition, revealing the price being paid for progress. Swipe to read early praise from Clarissa Ward, David de Jong, Patrick Radden Keefe, Jon Lee Anderson, and Mohamedsalem Werad.

We’re proud to announce A TIME TO GATHER by Bruce Feiler, #1 New York Times best-selling author and one of our great de...
12/16/2025

We’re proud to announce A TIME TO GATHER by Bruce Feiler, #1 New York Times best-selling author and one of our great decoders of human connection. Humans have always turned to ritual to connect us in periods of change—yet in recent decades, many of these traditions have disappeared. “It took us ten thousand years to establish cultural norms around how we mark collective life transitions,” Feiler writes. “It took us fifty years to dismantle them.”

Can this threat to society be reversed? To find out, Feiler embarks on a round-the-world ritual road trip, attending life rituals in sixteen countries on six continents, from a mass baptism in the Vatican to weddings in Las Vegas and funerals in Ireland. Alongside the decline of traditional rituals, he uncovers a ritual renaissance, as everyday people reimagine how we gather around life, love, health, and family in response to loneliness and digital saturation.

Both a stirring adventure and a practical manual, A Time to Gather is a landmark guide to modern ritual—a toolkit for turning everyday moments into unforgettable celebrations, and an invitation to reconnect and rejoice together. On sale May 19.

12/15/2025

"But in the course of researching and writing this book, I discovered that we can do something else with consciousness besides just trying to 'solve' the puzzle of it. We can learn how to make better use of it. The trajectory of these explorations, one I never could have predicted when I started out, has taken me from theories of consciousness to something more like practice.

This, then, is the wager of A World Appears: that by the end of this journey, you will be more conscious than you were before it. Conscious of what? Of the rhythms and workings of your own mind; of the sentience that is all around us in nature; and of the improbable fact—the miracle!—that in this universe of rock and fire and ice and infinite space, we are somehow not only here but aware."
--From A WORLD APPEARS by Michael Pollan, available February 24

Learn more and preorder your copy: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646644/a-world-appears-by-michael-pollan/

A groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them—and their ha...
12/15/2025

A groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them—and their hard-won political knowledge—rightly at the center of the fight for freedom.

"Susan Eva O’Donovan rightfully implores us to take a new view of American political history by paying the closest attention to what enslaved people were learning, doing, and seeing…a gripping account." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Learn more about Moving Toward Freedom and preorder at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741144/moving-toward-freedom-by-susan-eva-odonovan/.

Coming March 24th.

12/13/2025

Still looking for that perfect gift? 🎁 May we suggest Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Where Are You Really From — recently named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, NPR and Electric Literature 😏💥

12/12/2025

“I’m not surprised that at nineteen Kobe figured you were nuts.” Listen to Phil Jackson and Sam Smith discuss coaching Kobe Bryant in Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players.

Congratulations to Steve Coll, whose book The Achilles Trap won the Council on Foreign Relations’ annual Arthur Ross Boo...
12/10/2025

Congratulations to Steve Coll, whose book The Achilles Trap won the Council on Foreign Relations’ annual Arthur Ross Book Award. This award recognizes books that make an outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy and international relations.

Politico announced this morning The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America by Senator...
12/10/2025

Politico announced this morning The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America by Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia. A sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most, Senator Warnock tackles voting rights, gun violence, mass incarceration, and more, offering a bold vision of how to live and relate to one another. The Crooked Places Made Straight will be available on June 16, 2026 and is available for preorder now from your favorite bookseller.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780969/the-crooked-places-made-straight-by-raphael-g-warnock/

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