GRIN & TONIC
LOVE ROCKS
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
FOOD & DRINK
Jay McInerney's essays on wine let the genie out of the bottle.
READER'S DIARY
Franz Werfel's Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand transports readers to a forgotten Vienna.

May 29: T. H. White was born on this day in 1906. Best known for his Once and Future King series, White wrote two dozen books on a wide range of subjects, many of them reflecting their author -- an eccentric, reclusive man…

Naomi Benaron, author of the Spring 2012 Discover Great New Writers selection Running the Rift, selects four great reads, including a collection of…

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Opium

From the Stone Age onward, Papaver somniferum has been the source of medicinal and recreational drugs alike, and its trade powered the British empire's worldwide expansion. Clinical pathologist Dr. Thomas Dormandy traces its influence on inspired artists, desperate addicts, criminal gangs, and dedicated healers in this potent work of narrative history.

Threats

After his wife's mysterious death, a man finds sinister messages hidden around his house -- one buried in a bag of sugar, another carved into the side of his TV. What do they mean? The answer proves essential to solving the riddle at the heart of Amelia Gray's unsettling debut.

Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down

When a job at a French ad agency landed in his lap, novelist Rosecrans Baldwin had the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of living la vie Parisienne. And though cold réalité intruded -- in the form of financial struggles and the limits of his rudimentary Français -- the result was a more mature take on the city of his fantasies, flaws included.