A veteran political reporter turns in Margaret Mead?style satire of legislators and lobbyists. Read more...

The author of O Pure and Radiant Heart spins a modern fable of an eco-warrior's awakening. Read more...

The author of A Problem from Hell on a career in ambitious pursuit of peace. Read more...

The child of two fugitive activists goes on the run himself, in search of his parents. Read more...

Russell Banks stages a clash between haves and have-nots against an Adirondack background. Read more...

Thomas De Pietro on the explosive imagination of an enigmatic Irish writer. Read more...

A historian tracks the cataclysmic effects of the American Civil War on the psyche of a nation. Read more...

James McBride's novel tracks a young girl's escape from slavery, a decade before the Civil War. Read more...

Journalist and author David Rieff writes a memoir -- and a memorial -- of his mother, Susan Sontag. Read more...

The gulf between lives shadows a story of a friendship and two uncertain marriages. Read more...

A music magazine editor and DJ argues for the social benefit of illegal downloads. Read more...

The celebrated author of the Regeneration Trilogy returns to the trauma of World War I, on and off the battlefield. Read more...

The author of Paradise tracks the life of an RAF sergeant in the wake of World War Two. Read more...

The Olympian deities find themselves down and out in London. Read more...

A unsparing portrait of one of the 20th century's most dreadful military clashes. Read more...