A former Peace Corps volunteer tries to return to an idyllic African village, only to discover a nightmare.

A public defender's tragicomic exploits are at the heart of a boldly exuberant debut novel.

Backstabbing and lies in the lab, with a Nobel Prize on the line.

A young woman tries to escape her Bangladeshi village life by becoming an email-order bride.

The novelist has parlayed an amateur's oenophilia into a second career.

A new volume of the writer and thinker's journals reveals a mind bent on relentless self-interrogation.

A robbery gone wrong sends a child into exile in a story that recalls the work of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

The first volume in the memoir of a "narrative wizard" confronts the author's contentious relationship with his father.

A study of the most attention-getting of body parts reveals an organ as mysterious as it is vital.

The Nobel laureate's new novel addresses familiar themes in the story of a soldier's homecoming.

For a brief period in the 1960s, unprecedented cinematic freedom and innovation flourished in Czechoslovakia.

Butchery of more than one kind is at the heart of Commissario Guido Brunetti's latest case.

The author returns to the world of Ship Breaker, and a young woman's encounter with the dogs of war.

A memoir of life on Ojibwe reservation is both a portrait of a vanishing world and a look at why it's disappearing.

A new collection showcases the songwriting talents of the coal miner's daughter and feminist pioneer.

A hundred years before Occupy Wall Street, a movement aimed at the structures of power seemed ready to explode.

How John Singer Sargent captured the dawn of a new century in his portrait of two New Yorkers.

A life of playwright and gadfly Lillian Hellman suggests that her reputation in large part turns on her gender.

A novelist takes up the tale of a plot to kill a Nazi leader. But how much is truth?