The rise of the Iron Lady, at a suitably epic scale.

The Afghan odyssey of two Pakistani brothers finds fabled beauty amidst modern warfare.

A new look at Lepidoptera fanatics spreads its wings wide.

A modern werewolf novel attempts to give 21st-century terror an additional bite.

A pivotal battle of the American Revolution receives an incisive historian’s focus.

The Irish novelist looks back on a life of trails blazed.

Will the life and writing of a lost American genius receive a posthumous second act?

The minds running Google weigh in on technology's next waves.

Our fascination with dinosaurs is in no danger of extinction.

A feminist takes a probing look at the Mad Men generation.

A multiracial man returns to the African town of his birth, to confront a mystery of poetry and identity.

A look at history through the lens of three "castes" who have competed and collaborated to shape human societies.

Charting a love affair between astronomers from worlds apart.

Can a symbol of innocence grow up with its readers?

The rise of a painter amid the French Revolution and the Terror that followed.

How a Wall Street trader raised the stakes of the national pastime.

The journal of a sixteenth-century headsman gives a view of early modern life from its terminus.

Deep in the heart of Georgia, an undertaker's secret refuses to stay buried.

A reporter's quest to learn of arms, and the varied Americans who bear them.

A supernatural thriller that defies genre conventions and the "guilty pleasure" principle.

Dispelling the myths of victory, and unpacking the true motives behind competitive spirit.

The candid correspondence of a 20th century literary innovator. 

History repeats itself -- with variations -- in an inventive epic from the creator of the Jackson Brodie novels.

Hunting locally, gathering sustainably—foraging with the future of mankind in mind.

Are punchy prose and revelatory antics the key to a short story renaissance?

Has the rise of processed food created a generation of addicts?

A 1913 exploration of Antarctica takes a death-defying turn.

A view of the Colorado landscape and a family's new horizon.

Tales of the High Bench's history, from the first female justice to take her place on the Court.

A long-out-of-print gem of wry postmodernism returns.