A nineteenth-century Russian comic storyteller shines in a bold new English translation.

Has the rise of processed food created a generation of addicts?

A 1913 exploration of Antarctica takes a death-defying turn.

The authors on the state of literary criticism, "discoverability," and where they find great fiction.

The author of Picking Up takes our "cornucopia of commodities" to the curb.

A view of the Colorado landscape and a family's new horizon.

Tales of the High Bench's history, from the first female justice to take her place on the Court.

Small tales offer medium-sized heroes a grand forum.

A long-out-of-print gem of wry postmodernism returns.

The author of Shouting Won't Help on hearing loss, the arts, and the causes of our increasingly louder world.

In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, a punk icon issues a wailing rock memoir.

A Welsh farmhouse offers a garden of earthly delights.

Is the very notion of "religion" a modern invention?

The ringleaders of the annual Tournament of Books unveil the history of the coveted Rooster.

Why the eighty-eight-year old novelist's new work reads like a debut.