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Crossroads Publishing Group

The Crossroads catalog · Founding season 2026

Serious nonfiction, made well.

Crossroads publishes in three editorial lanes — Argument, Reflection, Witness. Each title is designed as an object worth keeping. The first three titles are public-domain classics that establish the visual and editorial language of the press. Original work from our founding authors follows in 2027.

Browse by lane: All Argument Reflection Witness
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James — Crossroads Edition cover

§ Reflection · Inaugural title

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · A Study in Human Nature

Twenty 1902 Edinburgh lectures that set aside whether religion is true and asked what it is like to have a religious experience. Foundational text of the psychology of religion, with a new editor's foreword.

Available
A Room of One's Own

Cover forthcoming

§ Argument · Forthcoming 2026

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Woolf's 1929 argument for the material conditions of women's writing — £500 a year and a room with a lock — delivered as essays from a 1928 lecture series at Cambridge.

Coming Soon
How the Other Half Lives

Cover forthcoming

§ Witness · Forthcoming 2026

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

Riis's 1890 documentary investigation of New York tenement life — the founding text of American photojournalism, with the original photographs that shocked a city into reform.

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