A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA powerful, unflinching portrait of a generation fighting for change in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine"Sala's dispatches are as immersive and original as they are anthropologically probing... [They] come alive in ways that ordinary newspaper journalism rarely does."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Fire, acclaimed journalist Cecilia Sala takes readers on a gripp...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus ReviewsA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEThis extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pope Francis invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart: mercy.“Moving . . . [Pope Francis] opens the sacred space of his conscience to explain how he came to center his ministry, and now his papacy, around mercy.”—James Carroll, The New Yorker“The name of God is mercy. There are no situations we cannot get out of, we are not condemned to si...

Fifty autobiographical short stories about childhood, life in Italy before and after World War II, and growing old in Milan by the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most celebrated Italian poets of the twentieth century.The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of those st...

A slim, virtuoso novel about age and imagination, by one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers82-year-old Nicola has spent his entire life telling stories, and becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life's minutiae, its ephemera, those almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice. Recording the universe in each grain of sand has become second nature to N...

A collection of homilies, speeches, and “messages of the day” that brings together Pope Francis’s wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now“Readers will be encouraged to clear away the cacophony of modern society and embrace the simplicity of joy.”—BooklistFor Pope Francis, the appreciation of our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around us an essential part of faith. Every...

A collection of homilies, speeches, and “messages of the day” that brings together Pope Francis’s wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now“Readers will be encouraged to clear away the cacophony of modern society and embrace the simplicity of joy.”—BooklistFor Pope Francis, the appreciation of our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around us an essential part of faith. Every...

October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. But when Borgia asks Machiavelli to write his life story, their bond gains complexity and nuance: ultimately, they both aspire to everlasting fame and to achieve it, they need each other, for the one's sword can only rule in eternity via the pen of the other.Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, rife with political i...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.WINNER OF THE 2015 CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD.“James Martin’s rivetingnew meditation on Jesus is one of the best books I’ve read in years—on anysubject.” — Mary Karr, author of LitJames Martin, SJ, giftedstoryteller and New York Times bestselling author of TheJesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, bring...

**New York Times Bestseller!From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist.**For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the w...

The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community”In the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor. In a stirring, clarion call that is not merely aimed at Catholic listeners but rather at a wide, lay audience, the Pope cites the overwhelming scientific evidenc...

**“**BetweenHeaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . .Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.”—Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New YorkFrom one of America’s mostbeloved spiritual leaders and the New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything and Jesus: APilgrimage Father James Martin, SJ, comes a revo...