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.

Recalling a fallen friend.

Long before The Truman Show, the German director trapped his characters in a virtual world.

As war looms, a Romanian village chooses to reimagine the world.

The latest outing of the Pink Carnation features Napoleonic espionage and love's triumph over some very bad poetry.

A new collection helps readers to appreciate the "new yet unapproachable" American thinker.

The infamous cover-up  -- and the gossip surrounding it -- is at the heart of a novel about men and women vying for power.

The strange allure of catastrophe.

A new collection highlights the Emersonian bent of a midwestern writer.

A debut novel hints at connections between seven bookish women scattered through time.

A woman renounces her strict religious upbringing.

Scenes from an American family's sojourn in the City of Light, from the author's forthcoming memoir Paris in Love.

An award-winning reporter's "uncompromising and important" new look at daily life in a Mumbai slum.

Eight new stories from an emerging master of the form seek "the narrow strait between hilarity and heartwreck."

An unclassifiable musician on a life spent transmuting suffering into music.

A wannabe-fashionista becomes a victim of national-security paranoia in this darkly comic novel.