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The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
2024 || Paperback || Siddhartha Mukherjee || Scribner
Now in paperback, Siddhartha Mukherjee's instant New York Times-bestselling The Emperor of All Maladies, a 'magisterial' history of cancer--one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2010. 'An extraordinary achievement." -The New Yorker "It's time to welcome a new star in the constellation of great writer-doctors. ' --Washington Post.
The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek
2025 || Hardcover || James Romm || Scribner
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...