The penultimate volume in a collection that traces the career of one of science fiction's most eclectic voices. Read more...

Ever inventive, writers of romance alter old forms to map fresh approaches to the heart.

"Father Knows Books" returns to cast a cartoonist's (and parent's) eye over a new book for children, about a royal family and an uplifting scenario.

A new work from a Nobel laureate may be the best account of how the global economy crashed -- and how it needs to be repaired. Read more...

Toxicology meets forensics in Jazz Age New York, giving birth to the first modern crime lab. Read more...

Vampire Weekend’s second outing is no sophomore slump. Read more...

Arresting and magical tales from a little known master of German literature. Read more...

Marriage to a virtual stranger may not work out well in most peoples lives. But it does make for a good story.

Discoveries in winter, from an Asperger’s memoir to a poet’s rural vision.

Ward Sutton reviews Charles Glass's new history of how American citizens survived, resisted, collaborated, and sometimes died during the Nazi occupation of the French capital.

An argument for the emerging dominance of the world's economy -- and culture -- by the most populous nation on the planet.

From the award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy, an intellectual adventure that shuttles between the 17th and 31st centuries. Read more...

Dorothy Uhnak's books transformed her trailblazing experience as a woman in the N.Y.P.D. into sagas that plumb the soul of the force. Read more...

After twelve months of listening, the songs that beg to be heard again. Read more...

Fourscore (plus three) records worth remembering from a year's devoted listening. Read more...