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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog. Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almost obsessive, joy from all things Disney. They devote countless...

An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences. In this provocative book...

From the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is "Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw."—Washington Post With Rax King's trademark blend of...

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* “Amy Odell’s dishy, often delicious Gwyneth: The Biography charts how Paltrow grew from winsome ingenue to influencer executrix.” —The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Amy Odell takes readers inside the world of one of the most...

National Bestseller The first new trivia book in more than a decade from Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings—based on his hugely popular online game “Kennections”! Five trivia questions. Five answers that share a secret theme. What's the “Kennection”? Since 2012, Jeopardy! champion and host...

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This is not about gas stations. It’s about everything they represent. Addiction disguised as convenience. Exhaustion normalized as hustle. Survival sold back to you—one purchase at a time. This Will Make a Blue-Collar Worker Cry is a brutal, eye-opening dive into the real systems fueling burnout culture. From nicotine rituals to sugar-coated dopamine bombs, it shows how the trap was built—and how to finally escape it. Every gas station breakfast. Every energy drink at dawn. Every smoke break, sugar rush, and six-pack after shift. It all adds up. And it’s not by accident.

London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies a chamber resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London?

This is a Community-Help Book, outlining the real impact our current social dynamics have on our social capital, belonging and how we lead, or don't lead, others. This audio version emphasizes didactic, and pragmatic guidance for building or shifting community dynamics towards more shared responsibility, integrity, and mutually beneficial connection. t provides diverse, do-able individual AND systemic solutions to create more social capital where you live, work and interact.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways. “Packed with fascinating facts, of-the-moment observations, and a...

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through the 2000s. For decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good...

¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de la sexualidad en las obras musicales clásicas y populares? Desde Mozart hasta Adorno, desde Wagner hasta Cardi B, pasando por Pink Floyd, Guy Debord y Madonna, por el tango, la música de películas y la vanguardia, cada uno de los dieciséis capítulos que componen Playlist. Música y sexualidad aborda estas cuestiones desde una entrada singular, como una serie de variaciones sobre un tema musical.

¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de la sexualidad en las obras musicales clásicas y populares? Desde Mozart hasta Adorno, desde Wagner hasta Cardi B, pasando por Pink Floyd, Guy Debord y Madonna, por el tango, la música de películas y la vanguardia, cada uno de los dieciséis capítulos que componen Playlist. Música y sexualidad aborda estas cuestiones desde una entrada singular, como una serie de variaciones sobre un tema musical.

¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de la sexualidad en las obras musicales clásicas y populares? Desde Mozart hasta Adorno, desde Wagner hasta Cardi B, pasando por Pink Floyd, Guy Debord y Madonna, por el tango, la música de películas y la vanguardia, cada uno de los dieciséis capítulos que componen Playlist. Música y sexualidad aborda estas cuestiones desde una entrada singular, como una serie de variaciones sobre un tema musical.

¿Qué papel tiene la música en la vida sexual de las personas? ¿Cuáles son las representaciones de la sexualidad en las obras musicales clásicas y populares? Desde Mozart hasta Adorno, desde Wagner hasta Cardi B, pasando por Pink Floyd, Guy Debord y Madonna, por el tango, la música de películas y la vanguardia, cada uno de los dieciséis capítulos que componen Playlist. Música y sexualidad aborda estas cuestiones desde una entrada singular, como una serie de variaciones sobre un tema musical.

Now a sprawling video game franchise, Resident Evil has kept us on the edge of our seats for decades with its tried-and-true brand of jump scares, zombie action, and biological horror. But even decades after its release, we can't stop revisiting the original's thrills, chills, and sometimes unintentional spills. Pop culture writer and horror cinephile Philip J Reed takes dead aim at 1996's Resident Evil, the game that named and defined the genre we now call "survival horror."

In Same Blood, Different Boats, the author explores the psychological and cultural dissonance between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans, who share a common ancestry but often experience profound disconnection. Drawing on history, sociology, and personal narrative, the book exposes the inherited naivety with which many Caribbean immigrants arrive in the United States, often unaware of the deeply rooted racial dynamics, historical trauma, and cultural undercurrents that shape the Black American experience.

A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes—and the costs—of our desire for certainty. With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.

A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, George Washington, the Beatles, and more Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk and William Shakespeare was a stoner? Or how about the fact that Steve...