The controversial journalist recalls his formative radicalism and illustrious friendships in an entertaining memoir.

America takes its first steps in the soccer cleats the rest of the world puts on daily. Read more...

Rotten prose is our most abundant resource -- let's put it to work.

A moving graphic memoir of a prominent Chinese family's perilous passage through 20th-century history.

Rachel Cusk's new novel attempts a contemporary reprise of a Tolstoyan melody.

A new history of the birth of quantum physics brings the weird, protean, paradoxical subatomic world to life. Read more...

A stimulating exploration of the motives that have driven people to find other authors for Shakespeare's plays.

A "so-called believer" explores the argument and art of Philip Pullman's reimagining of gospel narratives.

A new look at an Austrian novel that charts a doctor's unique and uncertain path to redemption.

Helen Oyeyemi on why the enigmatic author of "The Lottery" retains her grip on the dark side of our imaginations.

The filmmaker and provocateur transforms a lifetime of fascinations into a memorable and moving set of essays.

A playful and pointed account of the means by which we make our contact with the world around us.

A fascinating new illustrated history looks at how we visualize the vast territory of the past.

A Welles scholar offers reflections on the director's vexed legacy, prompted by some recent publications.

2,000 miles down the Indus with a writer stepping in the literary footsteps of Leigh Fermor and Chatwin.

Michael Gruber's The Good Son turns a hostage crisis in Pakistan into an exploration of our most primal longings.

A vision of an ethical design that honestly approaches its environment and endeavors to cooperate with it.

The latest novel from the 75-year-old Japanese Nobel Prize winner blends mystery and memory.

New books by Richard Florida and Matt Ridley that try to put recent economic turbulence in perspective.

Martin Amis's new novel remembers the sexual revolution as it was "well into its Reign of Terror phase."

A distillation of the historian's career-long engagement with the vicissitude of 20th-century history and ideology.

A novel mourning the death of journalism, centered on the decline and fall of an English-language paper in Rome.

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a searing report on the reality of the war in Afghanistan's Korengal valley.

A gifted and confident storyteller plots the loneliness of a husband of four and father of 28.

The author of Agent Zigzag reveals the true story of Britain's most ingenious WWII espionage ploy.

A scintillating, sweeping, and eye-opening account of the birth, maturity, and afterlife of the 18th Amendment.

The latest novel from Jane Smiley anatomizes a marriage in an era of tumultuous change.

The historic battle at Little Bighorn, from the award-winning author of Mayflower.