Ward Just puts his Chicago hometown in perspective with a novel of fathers, sons, and secrets.

The struggles faced by survivors and refugees of World War II—after the shooting stopped.

A novel of Ernest Hemingway's wife Hadley among the exiles in 1920s Paris.

Beauty and dread in the quartets Shostakovich created in Stalin's shadow.

A new novel engages the question of animal rights and discovers that humans playing god is not the answer.

The twilight of an actress from the era of Yeats and Synge, from the author of Star of the Sea.

An ingenious writer reconfigures his own past.

The Ottoman capital is the site of a young woman's discovery of her mysterious, magical destiny.

Socrates's life and work, at home in Athens.

A rollicking novel of a Tunisian emigrant to Sweden, told in an exuberant remix of languages.

A tale of truth and lies in a legendary Moroccan square.

An Israeli artist's adventures in the heyday of bohemian Manhattan.

In the cage with the tiger mother: a hard look at the season's most controversial book.

The legendary mathematician and his tragic fate.

A new biography plumbs the depths of a literary enigma.

A chimpanzee's tale of sentience, love, and murder.