Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today’s crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophobia and migration.

Inspiring stories of six US presidents and the distinctive leadership characteristics that set them apart and transformed America.

Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaiʻi and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.