Mary Shelley's most famous creation mingles with his maker and her circle. Read more...

The author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter pen an unusual memoir of travel and self-discovery. Read more...

A tale of human trafficking and revenge, seen through multiple perspectives. Read more...

A childhood seen through the high-precision lens of Asperger's syndrome. Read more...

The editor of Granta looks at messages from Morse to Microsoft Outlook -- and sees the rise of an implacable electronic tide threatens to overwhelm us. Read more...

A new collection of longer and shorter works from the award-winning novelist and poet trades in heartfelt sorrow and wicked humor. Read more...

A boy's life in a famed Tudor castle -- haunted by spirits of the past, and the present. Read more...

The youngest general in the Continental Army was also an inventive schemer who nearly engineered the breakup of the fledgling Union. Read more...

Ralph Nader's public-policy fantasia pits noble tycoons against mega-corporations in what the author calls a "practical utopia." Read more...

A portrait of the auteur, through the lens of conversation. Read more...

A murderous accident is the departure for one woman’s surprising journey to something like redemption. Read more...

A reading list that may form a textual inoculation for viral anxiety.

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude imagines a Manhattan nearly replaced by its own simulacrum. Read more...

The author of the classic Things Fall Apart uses his pen to set a cat among the pigeons. Read more...

Short stories as dreams with barbs, from a satirist of Soviet life under Stalin. Read more...

In A. S. Byatt’s new novel, the Edwardian era is both disappearing Eden and the center of turmoil for one artistic family. Read more...

When David Byrne stops moving, does he fall over? And when stationary, is he liable to be found leaning carefully against a wall? Read more...

Hilary Mantel brings the intrigue of the Tudor court to life -- through the mind of one of its most elusive players. Read more...

Richard Pious listens in as President Clinton wrangles with speeches, maneuvers foreign powers, and faces catastrophe. Read more...

The complex rhythms of the raga pulse through a Jamesian rendering of Bombay. Read more...

Scientists and scribes pursue happiness in the new novel from the author of Galatea 2.2. Read more...