Luís de Camões
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare.
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. The Chinese Myths not only retells the ancient stories but also considers their place within the patterns of Chinese religions, culture and history.
The Great Escape
The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship.
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Poverty, by America
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg
Relevant today.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide.
Palestinians collect books from the rubble of a cultural centre following an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on November 18, 2023 [Mohammed Abed/AFP]
Drying field, Shandong province, China
Kelp is an important marine vegetable and has long been cultivated in coastal areas as a part of human diets. This photo in June 2023 shows a clearing in the forest which is used for drying kelp
Photograph: Chunshui Yu/EPOTY23
A pair of pūteketekes, or Australasian crested grebes, on Lake Alexandrina in New Zealand, where they were this week crowned the country’s bird of the century. Voters were won over by its bizarre mating dance, its beautiful plumage and its engaging habit of frequent vomiting.
Photograph: Leanne Buchan Photography/AFP/Getty Images
Other Minds
The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus.
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