Shakespeare's fairies work their magic on lovers in a San Francisco park.

The surprisingly up-to-date guide to life found in the classic novelist's work.

A poignant tale of love lost and found between rough New York streets and the moneyed New Jersey suburbs.

A lost Shakespeare play may be an elaborate con, or a father's mysterious gift. 

 Alexandra Styron has written an extraordinarily sensitive biography of her father, the author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

A collaboration by novelist Jay Cantor and comics creator James Romberger journeys from September 11 to Guantanamo Bay to a mystical Arabia.

The fascinating artistry of an 18th century gentlewoman reveals a hidden world of creative expression in paper.

Set in an office of IRS auditors, David Foster Wallace's posthumously published book is a novel about boredom that's filled with surprise.

A distraught novelist remembers, mourns, and celebrates his lost love.

A grand attempt to map the birth and development of modern government.

The strange and complex history of pica—the practice of eating dirt.

Reading Brian Greene, Dezső Kosztolányi, and Henry James—and discovering the quandaries of the infinite.

A major reassessment of perhaps the most misunderstood figure of the civil rights era.

A collection of essays marked by the author's voracious intellectual appetite and improvisatory charm.

Have we had a great New York novel in the past decade?

A chance meeting in Rome brings a pair of lovers together again after decades apart.

Stories that explore the "risky and exhilarating" years of youth, and what follows.