Here Below champions ambitious books on everything from mysticism to technology that eschew binaries between the sacred and profane. Our authors write in good faith, even when they claim no faith beyond belief in the abiding power of great literature. Our handsome volumes reward close reading and provide a vital respite from digital algorithms designed to short-circuit critical and creative thought.

Here below, we believe that the great abiding questions — what does it mean to be human, what do we owe each other, what is this all for — surface everywhere. In parenthood and illness, in cities and rural landscapes, in great art and music and food and sport and the body. We’re alive to these questions wherever they appear to us today.

Here below, we’re curious without being credulous, sincere without being sanctimonious, and devoted to art without fearing provocation. Always, we’re pushing against the machines that would make us consumption-driven automatons.