David Foster Wallace: Becoming Himself
A new book reproduces an extended encounter with an author who fascinated in his art, and his life.
Barnes & Noble Reads
The Second Sex
A new translation of the groundbreaking book that asked women to rethink everything they’d been taught.
Duff Goldman: How to Cook a Wookiee
An excerpt from The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Matterhorn
An ambitious new novel recreates the chaos of jungle combat in Vietnam — from one who took part.
Making Toast
A family regroups, and grandparents must re-learn old roles, in Roger Rosenblatt’s touching memoir.
White Egrets
At the age of eighty, a great poet pits his voice against the encroaching shadows.
The Big Short
The author of Liars’ Poker finds the financial raiders who knew the bubble was destined to burst – and made…
The Surrendered
From the author of Native Speaker and Aloft, a story of war, tragedy and desire on an operatic scale.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
One of the most well-known stories of European literature is shattered, and re-made anew.
Azar Nafisi
The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran shares some uncommonly good reading.
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks
A long-awaited peek into the working mind of a literary genre’s most celebrated master.
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
A suburban Connecticut town is the setting for an update of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them
What is it about Russian literature that seems to warp the lives of those who fall under its spell?
The Poisoner’s Handbook
Toxicology meets forensics in Jazz Age New York, giving birth to the first modern crime lab.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The fascinating and moving story of a woman’s biological legacy raises painful questions.
The Whale
A writer’s obsession with the ocean’s giants leads him into deep waters.
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Amy Bloom’s new novel of short stories puts the spotlight on cupid’s paradoxical heartlessness.
Don DeLillo
The author on his new novel Point Omega, time and loss, Teilhard de Chardin, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Point Omega
The author of Underworld and Falling Man ensnares readers in another “imaginative act of empathy” and leaves us “suspended in…
Tracking the True Roberto Bolaño
Last interviews and an early novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666.