A Hungarian author's portrait of village life pulls no punches.

A biography of the artist whose work, "as rich and dynamic as it may be, is not as paradoxical as the man was."

A story of life in a Russian prison camp, by turns comic and shockingly honest.

The short life of John Kennedy Toole, author of the classic A Confederacy of Dunces. 

A critic takes a scene-by-scene journey through a masterpiece of cinema.

The chilling chronicle of an injustice in the Florida courts that became a turning point in the civil rights movement.

At the climax of the Cold War, misgivings simmered below the surface of the Anglo-American alliance.

The author of Gilead and Home collects essays marked by the spirit of her Western upbringing.

The aftermath of a tragic moment ripples out through years, and lives.

An epic that documents one of the twentieth century's greatest crimes, in a newly restored edition.

The Rough Rider versus the Rotten Apple.

Female psychics clash and destructive fury erupts.

The story of the computer's creation.

The secrets of the consulting room travel through walls and breed a man's obsession with a stranger.

A desert monolith is the strange attractor in a tale of myth and madness that hopscotches through time.

A case for how religious belief has shaped America's foreign policy.

The publisher of Grove transformed American literature with courage -- and savvy.

A journalist unveils the hidden history of Russia's prime minister.