Recalling a fallen friend.

Long before The Truman Show, the German director trapped his characters in a virtual world.

As war looms, a Romanian village chooses to reimagine the world.

The latest outing of the Pink Carnation features Napoleonic espionage and love's triumph over some very bad poetry.

A new collection helps readers to appreciate the "new yet unapproachable" American thinker.

The infamous cover-up  -- and the gossip surrounding it -- is at the heart of a novel about men and women vying for power.

The strange allure of catastrophe.

A new collection highlights the Emersonian bent of a midwestern writer.

A debut novel hints at connections between seven bookish women scattered through time.

A woman renounces her strict religious upbringing.

Scenes from an American family's sojourn in the City of Light, from the author's forthcoming memoir Paris in Love.

An award-winning reporter's "uncompromising and important" new look at daily life in a Mumbai slum.

Eight new stories from an emerging master of the form seek "the narrow strait between hilarity and heartwreck."