The legendary -- and infamous -- dynasty may have unwittingly sown the seeds of monarchy's end.

Is it possible to write the mind of a prophet?

The intensely private life of an artist who married the quotidian and the revolutionary.

The author of Atonement launches a tale of narrative deception from the spy games of a dying Cold War.

A story of the rivalry between the two greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance -- and the vanished masterpieces their competition produced.

The journals of one of the twentieth century's most powerful voices contain the seeds of the ideas his books explored.

How the wide-open spaces of the American frontier became a playground for English bluebloods.

Raymond Kennedy's ribald comedy pinned a satire of late-1980s excess on a small-town banker's sudden mania.

A fresh translation of a classic novel unveils an Austrian life overshadowed by the rise of fascism.

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.