A new collection celebrates the improbable magazine created by a quintet of Mad geniuses. Read more...

In one heady year, the "revolution of the intellectuals" changed the face of Europe -- and left an uncertain legacy. Read more...

A literary novel that illuminates the universality of ordinary lives. Read more...

In this novel, an SS officer's account of his role in Nazi atrocities blends exhaustive realism and a hallucinatory excess. Read more...

In this new collection of tales, it's the moments in between the crises that get the attention. Read more...

An attempt to unveil the woman draped in an alluring myth. Read more...

Unlocking a heart of darkness in colonial Africa yields nested tales in this playful novel. Read more...

Four new visions of that most irresistable nightmare -- the End of the World. Read more...

Twelve months that would transform the world -- and define many of the battles of the coming centuries. Read more...

In these stories, a clutch of modern Crusoes carve out lives on islands of their own design. Read more...

Getting a look at the full Henry. Read more...

The story of one of Europe's most talented and unusual families -- unfolded by the scion of another. Read more...

A Nietzschean obsession lurks menacingly behind a serene Viennese façade. Read more...

An outline of grand strategy that sees global commerce and armed might on the same spectrum. Read more...

Leonard Cassuto investigates the literary crime wave masterminded by author and publisher Charles Ardai. Read more...

The cheek-by-jowl life of a small Chinese town is the stage for this exuberant tragicomedy. Read more...

A new life of the master of the short story reveals the furies that drove him from within. Read more...

A father's illness pulls the rug out from under a family in this novel from the author of What Was She Thinking? Read more...

The philosopher makes a case for economics of ethics. Read more...

Could altruism and tenderness be the most important of our genetically encoded survival mechanisms? Read more...

If Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's Vietnam, why did they go in the first place? Read more...

The lives of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins form the foundation for an atmospheric Victorian mystery. Read more...

The author of the Coast of Utopia turns again to the playwright at the heart of modern drama. Read more...

Two boys set off to escape their dying hometown, but a tragic gravity exerts its pull. Read more...

Gone With the Wind, from page to screen and beyond. Read more...

A novel of German resistance against the Nazis, from the pen of a writer they nearly destroyed. Read more...