The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and sty...

**A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.**Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the st...

'Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce. Benjamin Moser has brought to life her essentially tragic nature in all its complexity' Edmund White'That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,' Clarice Lispector was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary modernist writers. The brilliant, beautiful and enigmatic daughter of Russian-Je...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning "landmark biography" of the towering 20th century intellectual, exploring the hidden struggles behind the formidable public face ( The New York Times).Named one of the Best Books of the Year by O Magazine , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Seattle TimesFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNo writer is as emblematic of the American...

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America—Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who c...

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and Latin America—Moser traces a lineage of Jewish dissenters who c...

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country's great museums.Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp....

‘Revelatory’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE‘An important work’ AFUA HIRSCH‘Remarkable’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ NATHAN THRALLA sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradit...

‘Revelatory’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE‘An important work’ AFUA HIRSCH‘Remarkable’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS‘A book of extraordinary moral clarity’ NATHAN THRALLA sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradit...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden AgeTwenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age.

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel i...

A landmark work of journalism that examines guilt, accountability, and the aftermath of atrocityIn A Train of Powder, Rebecca West blends reportage with moral inquiry, moving beyond the courtroom to probe the deeper entanglements of law, history, and human frailty that shape how guilt is assigned and justice is understood.Across four powerful accounts written between 1946 and 1954—many of which appeared in The New Yorker—West examines the ...