Phantom authors haunt the pages of Ali Smith’s unclassifiable new work.

A memoir of a mind, ravaged and rebuilt.

A novel of Belle  Époque Paris, through the eyes of a dancer-turned-studio-muse.

Room Service Confidential: a hotelier's tell-all.

How an English church was transformed into a work of highly personal art.

A Mediterranean quest combines with a philosophic take on aging.

A century of ambition and bloodshed in Colonial America.

A  reader looks back over a trailblazing year in novels for teens.

The comedic icon of the silent film era unspools the drama of a suitably dramatic life -- in his own voice.