Politics and Prose Presents

The deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon. Perhaps no founding father is as mysterious as Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence was both a gifted wordsmith and a bundle of nerves. His superior knowledge of the human heart is captured in the impassione...

A REAL-LIFE DISASTER MOVIE: A minute-by-minute account of 2 simultaneous catastrophes during a 1982 blizzard—and the extraordinary courage of civilians and first responders For fans of  Deep Survival  and Adam Higginbotham’s  Midnight in Chernobyl  and  Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space Dedicated to first responders and every person who steps up to act when it m...

A paradigm-shifting work that explores humanity’s most fundamental desire. MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of  Plato at the Googleplex  and  The Mind-Body Problem , returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: the longing to  matte...

For readers of  The Sum of Us  and  South to America , an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the moder...

In  Capital Evolution: The New American Economy , Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride deliver a bold and timely reassessment of capitalism in America. Drawing on decades of experience in finance, journalism, and policy, Levine and MacBride argue that capitalism isn’t the problem—it’s the outdated neoliberal version we’ve been practicing that’s failing us. From the rise of populism to the growing di...

A riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning  New York Times  journalists T.M. Landry College Prep, a small private school in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, boasted a 100 percent college acceptance rate, placing students at nearly every Ivy League university i...

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century featured a front-row seat on history, an epic cast, and left an enduring cultural legacy At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on  What’s My Line? , whom TV brought into America’s homes each week. They didn’t know the handsome, driven, parado...

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all . Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore him. But when he meets Hans, an eccentric Dutch artist, the future he yearns for is possible—as long as...

A propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story.  Your family. World War II. Nazi spies.  Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. When she asked her seventy-year-old father, Eberhard, what this could po...

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century in Laurinburg, North Carolina. In the late nineteenth century, Laurinburg, North Carolina, was a beacon of racial calm—a place where Blacks and whites could live and work...

A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world. This updated edition for the current generation of activists features new poems translated by Edmund Ghareeb, an internationally recognized Lebanese American scholar, and a new foreword by Dr. Greg Thomas. In 1971, in the wake of George Jackson’s killing by Sa...

From the MS NOW Senior Political and National Correspondent and  New York Times  bestselling author of  Separated , a gripping and revelatory account of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles fires, which he covered on the ground as an LA native.  On the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national correspondent for NBC News. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating...

For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nation’s most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired similar ventures abroad, has garnered plaudits for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of American poetry. This year’s anthology is guest edited by the esteemed poet and songwriter Terence Winch, who brings to the task his work as...

Based on actual events,  The Einstein Conspiracy  pits two FBI agents against a cunning undercover operative on a mission to abduct Albert Einstein, who Hitler believes holds the key to building the atomic bomb. Agents James Amos and Harry Weiss plunge into a showy, surreal America where Nazi rallies take place in the iconic Madison Square Garden, and small, once quaint villages have transformed i...

A lyrical and groundbreaking exploration of the misun­derstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma from the award-winning  New York Times Magazine  writer Jen Percy.  After a childhood spent learning survival strategies in the wilderness, Jen Percy thought she knew how she would respond in the face of danger. But a series of unsettling interactions with men left her feeling betrayed and co...

Plastic is everywhere--wrapped around our food, stitched into our clothes, even coursing through our veins. Once a marvel of modern science, plastic has become so inextricably woven into our lives that imagining a world without it can seem impossible. Over the last seventy-five years, plastic has cradled our planet in a synthetic embrace. The Problem with Plastic  critically examines the paradox o...

The definitive, unbiased account of the twenty-four hours surrounding the historic January 6th attack on the Capitol The January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of American government. Unlike previous national traumas that united the country in the face of turmoil, the siege has only further divided Americans, as many continue to dispute the facts and downpla...

An authoritative, practical, and entertaining guide to healthy living from one of America’s leading health experts. Every day brings a torrent of articles, videos, and podcasts about health and longevity. The “Wellness Industrial Complex” offers conflicting advice and promises us more time to enjoy in the future—but it sure is demanding a lot of time right now. In  Eat Your Ice Cream , renowned he...

When you've been told over and over that you belong at the bottom, how do you come out on top?  Dance Moms  star and triple threat Nia Sioux shows the way via her story of resilience, triumph, and defining success for herself. Young dancer Nia Sioux was only nine years old when she stepped into stardom as one of the original cast members of Lifetime's reality TV show  Dance Moms . Nia lear...

From the Pulitzer-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Nazis Next Door, a deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California—“ground zero” for racial extremism—and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.    One night in early 20...

As warming reshapes our planet, the Arctic--a region that once seemed unchangeable, beyond the reach of modern problems--is quickly coming undone. While the old cold world can still be glimpsed in the movements of caribou, the hidden lives of wolves, or the hunting skill of an Inupiat elder, look closer and you'll find a new Arctic emerging in its place. In  Frostlines , Neil Shea blends natur...

The Green Heart of Italy  provides an intimate portrait of the lush and verdant region of Umbria, known as 'Tuscany without tourists.' The pandemic halted international travel and access to most areas of Europe, creating lasting impacts on these regions which benefit greatly from outside visitors. Now, in the post-Covid reboot of Italy's ever growing tourist industry, Umbria is poised...

“Shepard, the Bob Dylan of American Drama, had an almost unbelievably eventful life, and Robert M. Dowling’s essential biography illuminates every corner of it, while providing a wonderfully clear guide to Shepard’s tangled, massively influential body of work.” — David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a my...

Advice from wellness instructors on how to seek and track joy in the New Year and throughout 2026. Focusing on how to specifically use the cold to reach within yourself and discover unimaginable possibilities and daily practice of “joy spotting” the act of naming small, meaningful moments. Alex Elle  is a New York Times Bestselling Author, wellness educator, and Restorative Writing teacher with mo...

When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fostered and fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end. There is also the matter of the family cu...