A delicate network -- and a vulnerability to chaos -- connect the characters in this thoughtful comedy.

The history of domestic life, the author argues, tells the story of our deepest secrets.

A new life of the writer focuses on Tolstoy's place in a changing Russian society.

A war correspondent and historian brings to life the voices of World War I.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering comes a new novel that reckons the cost of love.

The legendary navigator's journeys after the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

A new biography of the playwright explores the secrets she guarded so closely.

A once-brilliant surgeon battles Alzheimer's disease. But is she forgetting a monstrous crime? 

A new biography of the Florentine diplomat and author who gave birth to modern political theory, and blackened his own name in the process.

Sparkling insights on art and artists are matched with a taste for scandal's allure in these essays.

120 years after its original publication, Oscar Wilde's masterpiece stands fully revealed—and annotated.

The passions—musical and otherwise—of the great singer Edith Piaf.

The letters of travel writer Bruce Chatwin reveal genius driven by an uncontainable enthusiasm.

Echoes of Graham Greene can be heard in Aminatta Forna's tale of youth, love, politics and betrayal in Africa.

Reza Aslan's new collection unlocks a treasure trove of Middle Eastern writing.

A tale of a "rake's progress" through a trend-maddened art world.

A new memoir from a member of Pakistan's storied political dynasty.

The release of a terrorist raises uncomfortable questions about Germany's past, and present.

The acclaimed British playwright details the shyness and madness that were his family inheritance.

An urgent moral fable set in Nazi-occupied Holland, Keilson's novel proves that even death guaranteed no escape from the terror of the war.

A true-life tale of madness, scandal, and murder in Gilded Age New York.

An acclaimed travel writer and history explores the enduring religious inheritance of India through fascinating portraits of nine individuals.

In a new history of the American Revolution, an esteemed historian shifts the focus from the Founders to ordinary people.

Brooke Allen on the therapeutic joys of mystery and espionage discoveries from Felony & Mayhem Press.

Books that evoke the era of Victoria and Albert, in full flower – and rushing headlong to its end.

Discoveries in winter, from an Asperger’s memoir to a poet’s rural vision.

New books collect the literature of a modern nation and listen for the lasting echoes of an ancient one. Read more...

From Wallace Shawn to Geraldo Rivera, uneasy crossings of horizons moral and physical. Read more...

A new memoir from a daughter of a tragically brilliant union; an elegant critic; and the joys of crime by gaslight. Read more...

New maps of the inner landscape from Carol Windley, and classic explorations of the ego revisted. Read more...