A “major new work” from author Yuval Noah Harari is coming later this year, according to his publisher.
This summer, Random House will publish Harari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI, the press announced in a news release. It describes the book as a “ground-breaking work of nonfiction by one of our most innovative, engaging, and prescient thinkers.”
Harari, an Israeli historian, scored a massive bestseller in 2015 with the English-language version of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; the book was originally published in Hebrew four years prior. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, a history of humankind, “The great debates of history aired out with satisfying vigor.”
His other books include Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrowand 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Harari’s most recent release is Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World, a children’s book illustrated by Ricard Zaplana Ruiz that was published in 2022.
The new book, Random House says, “looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.”
Nexus is slated for publication on Sept. 10.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
