A British writer puts the spectacle of the American Civil War on a transatlantic stage.

A teenager falls under the sway of a pair of uncanny new friends in this gothic coming-of-age story.

A daughter searches for her mother in a bitterly divided post-apocalyptic landscape.

A "Cabinet of Canine Curiosities" that chronicles four-legged feats, both mythical and real.

 A neuroscientist looks at the power of feeling good.

An ambitious--and ruthless--politician crosses paths with a waitress in a tale of suspense grounded in the blue-collar world of New York's outer boroughs.

A daring novel rewrites Joseph Conrad's epic Nostromo into the history of the Panama Canal.

How a death on a farm led to a monument of children's literature.

A Brooklyn poet on a roundabout quest to repair his own life finds himself on an unlikely rescue mission.

A poignantly dark comedy follows a 1970s Californian businessman who takes wing as a fledgling smuggler.

A quest for a miracle drug, a mysterious rainforest tribe, and a murder in the Amazon combine in a heady story of adventure and self-discovery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin changed the world.  But is it worth reading now?

A revealing and inspiring look at where and how scientific ideas take shape.

A grieving family and an escaped bear find unexpected connections on a Scottish island.

A new series offers highly personal takes on films that -- in various registers -- spoke to a generation.

Do we underrate the value of faithfulness?

In which a mysterious head wound leads a man on a dreamlike odyssey of interwoven tales.