The Mattering Instinct not only offers a new framework for understanding yourself and others that can yield practical insights. It also offers a way of understanding the most irresolvable divides that separate us, which are ripping our society apart.

In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX Goldstein proves why philosophy is here to stay – and in fact more relevant today than ever before – by revealing its hidden (though essential) role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, it is a luminous and intoxicating novel.

Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age.

This lucid and accessible study makes Gödel’s theorem and its mindbending implications comprehensible to the general reader, while bringing this eccentric, tortured genius and his world to life.

“Luminous, incendiary... Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies.” —New York Times Book Review

“Rebecca Goldstein is an enchanting storyteller, and Mazel is a work of extraordinary intelligence and imagination.” —Hilma Wolitzer

A collection of stories that explores the interactions of thought and feeling, mind and heart, to reveal the deep, mysterious ties between seemingly unrelated lives.

A compelling blend of philosophy and dark humor, from one of today’s most provocative novelists.

Goldstein accomplishes and even more impressive feat of architecture, interlacing high romance with an elegant meditation on the conflicting claims of reason and desire.

A trenchant, funny, very wise novel about life and love in academia that adds up to one of the most delicious and though-provoking new reading experiences in a long time.