Recommended reading from Harvard University Press—now available in paperback.

Available for the first time in a stand-alone volume, the classic essay that envisions liberalism not as the triumphant endpoint of political progress, or even a cohesive ideology, but rather as a pre...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In Credit to the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2026), Rebecca Kobrin shows how Eastern European Jewish immigrant bankers transformed commercial banking in the United States by extending credit to ...

A famous documentarian’s new book suggests that secrecy is a major impediment to sensible nuclear policy.

How sickle cell anemia led the quest to edit the human genome while patients endured decades of racial discrimination and medical neglect.In December 1904, Walter Clement Noel, a dental student from G...

A new annotated translation of "Past & Thoughts" restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to ...

This newest volume in the Ex Horto series, Likoodzi Shkalneek Áyá / It’s a Wonderful Story: Tlingit Oral History and Literature, features stories of an ancient migration over glaciers, cycles of legen...

Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her book, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (2026), which unveils how a shared set of racial laws wedded s...

How Eric Hobsbawm brought revolution to a broad audience.

Plant Humanities moves plants to the center of critical inquiry, positioning them as biocultural entities with distinct environmental and social histories that have profoundly shaped human cultures. I...

Elizabeth Stice reviews "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026). A history of the physical university, a narrative of materials from the...

Today's interview was suggested by Mark A., but not Mark A. on Discord who chose our interview with Gerald Horne earlier this week. This is

In The Discovery of Ottoman Greece (Harvard University Press, 2025), Richard Calis offers a richly documented portrait of Martin Crusius, an early modern scholar who never set foot in Greece yet dedic...

An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cent...

Michelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award fro...

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