YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera

What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? The author tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves, and the role of friendships in an ethical life.

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention

Including letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions or leaders, this collection gives voice to the experiences, thoughts and feelings of ordinary Russian people - workers, peasants, soldiers - as expressed in their own words during the vast upheavals of 1917.