The former “Freelance” columnist for the Times Literary Supplement tells the extraordinary story of the summer his teenage daughter descended into psychosis. "They stole my words," she tells her father, and in supplying his own to treat her -- and his own -- affliction, Greenberg has written a haunting book. Now in paperback. Read our review. Read more...

The latest installment in one of the most underrated detective series around has US military policemen Ernie Bascom and George Sueno looking into further criminal doings in the demilitarized zone on the South Korean border. Read more...

Johnny Mercer’s lyrics set the highest standards in the American songbook. Collaborating with Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, and Jerome Kern, among many others, he set unforgettable words to some of the most memorable melodies in popular music... Read more...

Fourteen previously unpublished stories by the writer of whom our contributor, Tom Carson, had this to say in review of Vonnegut’s previous posthumous volume, Armageddon in Respect: “[T]o this reader, the least of Vonnegut has more value than whatever John Updike or Joan Didion cooked up on whatever they think was the best day of their lives.” Read more...

The accomplished novelist’s memoir of mortality. Now in paperback. Read our review. Read more...

A surprising cast of characters --the inventor of the birth control pill; the king of kitchen gadgets, Ron Popeil; soft-spoken canine wizard Cesar Millan -- animates this collection of journalistic adventures from the author of The Tipping Point and Blink. Read more...

Some of the greatest characters and stories in English are rescued from their Middle English exile in Peter Ackroyd's sprightly modern rendering of Chaucer’s 14th-century masterwork. Read more...

An illuminating biography of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in jazz history -- "Misterioso" indeed. Read more...

Roth's short novel of campus life in the 1950s in the shadow of the Korean War. Now in paperback.  Read our interview with the author. Read more...

The history, geography, and family lore of pasta, collected by an Italian food authority whose researches into the many shapes the blessed foodstuff takes -- from abissini and agnellotti to zagarelle, ziti, and zziridd’ -- combines storytelling, scholarship, and recipes into a delicious compendium. Read more...

Lisa Kleypas at her finest: do not miss this delicious, sweet, sexy treat about a bold man who decides on first sight to claim a young lady as his wife -- no matter what he has to do to get her! Read more...

A bevy of specialists contribute to this illustrated encyclopedia that surveys the history and development of code-making and code-breaking in many aspects of culture and society. Read more...

The director of the film Mondovino here takes us around the world in a celebration of terroir -- the earthbound expression of wine’s ethereal soul. Read more...

A witty illustrated guide to disappearing objects, and ideas, from privacy and cash to blind dates and -- yikes! -- books. Read more...

Early and uncollected short stories by a master of the form. Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri. Read more...

A graphic novel about Bertrand Russell and his search for mathematical certainty? Really? Yes. And not only that, but a dramatic, engaging, and absorbing graphic novel on that theme. This witty narrative of Russell’s pursuit of philosophical truth (and other not-so-metaphysical pleasures) instructs and delights in equal measure. With a special appearance by that riveting character actor, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Read more...

Jane Austen meets Date.com! If the ghost of a great writer took up residence in your brain, what do you suppose her dating advice might look like? Fresh, original, and lots of fun. Read more...

A laugh-out-loud look at the life of a second grade teacher from public school in NYC. Find out what your kid's elementary school teacher is thinking and would never, ever say aloud. Read more...

An innovative recipe book of the imagination, with scores of brief and often brilliant essays by a wide range of contributors, exploring the provenance and flavors of cornucopia of ingredients... Read more...

A graphic novel from the 1960s, drawn and written by one of the too-little-known geniuses of modern Italian letters, author of The Tartar Steppe and Catastrophe and Other Stories. Read more...

One of Ford’s most satisfying Westerns, this genial film follows the adventures of a Mormon wagon train, headed by Ward Bond, on its way to Utah. Read more...

An entertaining, wide-ranging, encyclopedic passage through the life, mind, ideas, and influence of Charles Darwin. Packed with essays and illustrations. Read more...

Acclaimed novelist Paul Theroux is equally famous for his travel writing. In his latest eloquent and entertaining account of a journey, he retraces the tracks of the vast excursion he described in The Great Railway Bazaar more than thirty years ago, and marks the changes in sites and seer. Now in paperback. Read more...

A pioneering life of the legendary thinker who influenced the thought of Galileo and Shakespeare -- and was burned at the stake as heretic in 1600 in Rome's Campo dei Fiori. Now in paperback. Read more...

The life of Paul Dirac, “Mystic of the Atom”: the story of a mind that leapt over the mysteries of physics, and a soul tormented by visions. Read more...

The author of Hurry Down Sunshine and the acclaimed “Freelance” columnist for the Times Literary Supplement revises his life for publication. Read more...

A society of scientist-monks is at the heart of the latest saga from the author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle. Now in paperback. Read more...

An investigation into the imagination and achievement of the acclaimed critic's favorite painter, Antoine Watteau, the enigmatic "master of silken surfaces and elusive emotions" who died in 1721 at the age of 36. Perl’s beautiful composed "alphabet" deftly combines admiration and analysis. Now in paperback. Read more...

What makes the good doctor such good medicine? Find out in this superb selection from his voluminous wisdom. Read more...

This September marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Johnson, and the tricentenary has seen the publication of another small shelf of biographies of this essential yet enigmatic figure in English literature. DON’T OPEN ANY OF THEM until you have read W. Jackson Bate’s 1975 life, one of most satisfying, absorbing, and inspiring biographies ever written. Read more...