How It All Began
A delicate network -- and a vulnerability to chaos -- connect the characters in this thoughtful comedy.
Read more...If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The history of domestic life, the author argues, tells the story of our deepest secrets.
Read more...The Beauty and The Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
The Forgotten Waltz
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering comes a new novel that reckons the cost of love.
Read more...Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Turn of Mind
A once-brilliant surgeon battles Alzheimer's disease. But is she forgetting a monstrous crime?
Read more...Machiavelli
A new biography of the Florentine diplomat and author who gave birth to modern political theory, and blackened his own name in the process.
Read more...Lives and Letters
Sparkling insights on art and artists are matched with a taste for scandal's allure in these essays.
Read more...The Picture of Dorian Gray
120 years after its original publication, Oscar Wilde's masterpiece stands fully revealed—and annotated.
Read more...Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
The letters of travel writer Bruce Chatwin reveal genius driven by an uncontainable enthusiasm.
Read more...The Memory of Love
Echoes of Graham Greene can be heard in Aminatta Forna's tale of youth, love, politics and betrayal in Africa.
Read more...The Weekend
The release of a terrorist raises uncomfortable questions about Germany's past, and present.
Read more...A Life Like Other People's
The acclaimed British playwright details the shyness and madness that were his family inheritance.
Read more...Comedy in a Minor Key
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.
Read more...The Fall of the House of Walworth
Nine Lives
An acclaimed travel writer and history explores the enduring religious inheritance of India through fascinating portraits of nine individuals.
Read more...American Insurgents, American Patriots
In a new history of the American Revolution, an esteemed historian shifts the focus from the Founders to ordinary people.
Read more...Therapeutic Felony & Mayhem
Brooke Allen on the therapeutic joys of mystery and espionage discoveries from Felony & Mayhem Press.
Read more...Royal Pairs
Books that evoke the era of Victoria and Albert, in full flower – and rushing headlong to its end.
Read more...From Brisbane to Byzantium
New books collect the literature of a modern nation and listen for the lasting echoes of an ancient one. Read more...
New Worlds
From Wallace Shawn to Geraldo Rivera, uneasy crossings of horizons moral and physical. Read more...
Ascents, Flights, and Fogs
A new memoir from a daughter of a tragically brilliant union; an elegant critic; and the joys of crime by gaslight. Read more...
Introspections
New maps of the inner landscape from Carol Windley, and classic explorations of the ego revisted. Read more...
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 Francais -- the result was a more mature take on the city of his fantasies, flaws included.
The feline acrobatics and other mysteries of everyday physics that Mark Levi explores in this charming book are just the beginning. A fun and enlightening workout for your gray matter.
Scott's doomed Antartic expedition and the haunting mysteries surrounding its failure lead to obsession in Richard Pierce's debut novel. As painter Birdie Bowers pursues her fascination with the explorer and his death, she risks both her body and her heart for answers.
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