The novelist's booze-soaked, bittersweet take on the classic ghost story.

Wartime sleuth Bernie Gunther returns in his greatest adventure yet.

The minds running Google weigh in on technology's next waves.

Another artful experiment from a genre-bending icon of science fiction.

Revealing the candid passions and ambitions of the austere O Pioneers! author.

Our fascination with dinosaurs is in no danger of extinction.

Family memories, globetrotting mishaps and macabre encounters from a deadpan sensibility.

The legendary -- and infamous -- dynasty may have unwittingly sown the seeds of monarchy's end.

A feminist takes a probing look at the Mad Men generation.

A multiracial man returns to the African town of his birth, to confront a mystery of poetry and identity.

A look at history through the lens of three "castes" who have competed and collaborated to shape human societies.

Charting a love affair between astronomers from worlds apart.

Can a symbol of innocence grow up with its readers?

The rise of a painter amid the French Revolution and the Terror that followed.

How a Wall Street trader raised the stakes of the national pastime.