A mysterious portrait is at the center of a literary page-turner.

The author of Pacific on returning to the Grouse County of his prior novels, his recent screenwriting, and teaching journalism.

Terror and redemption alternate in this darkly lyrical adventure set in the Depression-era South.

The author of Let the Great World Spin spans genres and generations in his latest historical fiction.

Two young Nigerians leave home in the new novel from the author of Half of a Yellow Sun.

The author of The Kite Runner returns with a story of a family separated by war, still connected by hidden threads.

Anthony Marra and NoViolet Bulawayo discuss their provocative debuts, and the honorable responsibility of drawing fiction from history.

In an espionage master's latest, war is a booming private enterprise.

The Afghan odyssey of two Pakistani brothers finds fabled beauty amidst modern warfare.

The Da Vinci Code's author on defining hell, challenging his hero, and deciphering Dante in his latest historical thriller, Inferno.

The author of The Liars' Gospel on making unorthodox fiction out of the life of Jesus.

How selfish must an artist be?

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

Charting a love affair between astronomers from worlds apart.

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