A new collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. Read more...

With their father's musical legacy as a stage, Richard Wagner's family mounted a domestic opera to rival the Ring. Read more...

Liz Rosenberg looks at a comprehensive new collection of her poems and prose. Read more...

The evolution of the comic book, and its peculiar place near the heart of the culture wars. Read more...

Sarah Weinman surveys the increasingly popular marriage of historical fiction set in Antiquity with the modern detective novel. Read more...

A scholar of the American Revolution casts a cold eye on recent trends in the study of history. Read more...

The author of A Ship Made of Paper spins a wry tale of desire and the perils of the novelist's profession. Read more...

The journalist and author of The Assassins' Gate delivers a literally dramatic rendering of Iraqis in crisis. Read more...

The further chronicles of the dilatory hero of I'll Go to Bed at Noon. Read more...

Eloisa James on the endless appeal of Austen -- remixed. Read more...

Alexandra Mullen on why P.G. Wodehouse's genius doesn't stop with Bertie and Jeeves. Read more...

Two new volumes unearth the life and correspondence of the author of Angle of Repose Read more...

From the author of Clockers, a tale of worlds colliding in a historic Manhattan neighborhood. Read more...

A veteran reporter examines the prospects for democracy in the Middle East. Read more...

A chronicle of counterfeiting and survival in World War II Berlin. Read more...

Brooke Allen looks at five books that span the globe -- and the centuries. Read more...

The corrosive power of suspicion, the universal burden of guilt, and the long-lived consequences of an act of violence. Read more...

Thirteen new stories take in Biblical legends, suburban hysteria, and Tom & Jerry cartoons. Read more...

A life of the groundbreaking stage performer and recording artist. Read more...

The unshakably inquisitive pathologist Quirke returns, in the latest from novelist John Banville's alter ego. Read more...

A fantastical portfolio of literary oddities becomes a devastating satire on the fascinations of villainy. Read more...

What a vet's eye view reveals about the lives of animals -- and the people who live with them. Read more...

Tess Taylor on the sidelong delights of Zbigniew Herbert's travel essays -- infused with the visionary power of his poetry. Read more...

A new biography -- and forthcoming collection -- unlock the genius of Bill Mauldin, journalist and cartoonist. Read more...

A haunted, haunting tale of tormented love and the soul's vulnerable places. Read more...

A collection of idiosyncratic, often revelatory portraits of athletes on the field and off. Read more...

The mysterious legacy of an audiotape unspools in a work that blends suspense and elegy. Read more...

How the concept of accident, from Aristotle to Buster Keaton, has shaped the way we understand the world. Read more...