An atmospheric story of two sisters who engage in a mysterious art form.

The complicated woman who pioneered family planning and advocated population control.

A "tiny lexicon" captures the paradoxes of the world's most populous country.

The final book in the series that began with Wicked returns Dorothy Gale to a war-torn Oz.

From Johnny Appleseed to James K. Polk, the Americans who embodied Manifest Destiny.

A new biography of the poet, doctor, and plainspoken revolutionary.

The author turns from nightmares to a dream of time-travel and its consequences.

An opulent novel based on the life of Auguste Escoffier, the "king of chefs and chef of kings."

An infamous crime and its aftermath.

A collection of previously published short fiction by the American master of dread.

In these gritty mysteries, cases that no one else cares about fall to one cop.

The jewels, the gowns, the lovers, and the will to power of a remarkable ruler.

A dense, imagistic book of music criticism that echoes the band's unique sound.

A period of unprecedented musical innovation.

Can the novelist’s art unwrap an enigmatic First Lady?

A graphic novel about the murder of Rasputin.

An enormous novel captures decades of Hungarian history.

In his third annual review of the National Book Award finalists, a former judge  surveys  the contenders.

A visit to a world of fake weapons and real fury.

A writer of unerring humanity revisits one of the most brutal episodes of WWII.

A new collection of essays on subjects ranging from reality television to Christian rock.

A comprehensive look at the life and divided affections of the Italian poet.

A lonely man finds salvation by assuming the unlikely role of rescuer.

A veteran journalist looks back at his fraught relationship with his father.

More than six decades of material from a living legend.

In 1919, a group of English women received a life-changing revelation: the incarnation of God lived in their midst.

Portrait of a restless innovator.

A middle-aged man, unraveling after his father's death, forms a strange relationship with an eleven-year-old girl.

An exploration of the imperfect art of translation.

In a searing new memoir, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking reflects on motherhood, loss, and memory.