Ellison's long-gestating, never completed follow-up to Invisible Man is here presented in all its sprawling, fascinating, and unconsummated glory -- more than 1,000 pages. Read more...

Voices and visions explore the reaches of the inner life in this rewarding anthology of essays, poems, fiction, and memoir by the likes of John Updike, Diane Ackerman, Richard Rodriguez, Nicholas Carr, Mary Jo Bang, Richard Wilbur, Louise Glück, and others. Read more...

The fascinating true tale of an Italian gang’s heist of millions of dollars worth of gems from a supposedly thief-proof vault in the heart of Antwerp’s fabled diamond district. Read more...

It doesn't get sweeter than this. Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Boy shares a blueberry muffin. For the romantic preschooler. Read more...

Palestinian amateur sleuth Omar Yussef is a fish out of water in New York, especially when his son gets mixed up in a murder case that only his father can sort out. Read more...

A British flag glimpsed during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution is the prompt that inspires this autobiographical novel by the 2002 Nobel laureate. Read more...

Who said economics is the dismal science? An award-winning illustrator and a comic economist (really) team up to chase the blahs away from the subject in this witty course in microeconomic theory. Read more...

A compelling novel of family and friendship set in Ethiopia in 1974 during the violent overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie. Read more...

Born to privilege, Clarissa Dickson Wright launched a prodigious legal career before turning to drink and partying away all of her advantages. She found redemption in the kitchen as one of television's Two Fat Ladies, and here, with characteristic humor, she recounts her ups and downs. Read more...

A marvelous addition to Harvard University Press's lovely Wonders of the World series, celebrating the history and atmosphere of Venice's great public square. Read more...

He was called "Happy," and had every reason to be: student, star baseball player, and life-of-the-party at Macalester College, Alex Lemon was on top of the world -- until he had his first stroke, and his existence took a tumble. A vivid, eloquent, moving memoir. Read more...