Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The author of Half of a Yellow Sun on her new story collection.
Barnes & Noble Reads
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
The astounding career of the “Million Dollar String Bean.”
Let the Great World Spin
A man’s unlikely balancing act lends momentary grace to the chaos of a fragmenting city.
White Is for Witching
A malevolent house works its will on a family in this heady gothic tale.
Lean, Mean, and High-Toned Too: Richard Stark’s Parker Novels
The enduring appeal of Richard Stark’s dedicated crime professional, Parker.
The Story Sisters
A novel of three sisters whose charmed lives prove not so charming.
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Is the modern conception of work an unpleasant necessity? An evolutionary aberration? Or a key to happiness?
Brooklyn
A novelist returns to his hometown and sends his heroine across the Atlantic.
Laila Lalami
The author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits discusses her just-published first novel, Secret Son, and her popular literary blog.
Sag Harbor
A beachfront coming-of-age in the ’80s, from the author of The Intuitionist.
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine
Bryant Terry’s collard greens are lightly braised and tossed with raisins and citrus; his okra lightly crisped and served with…
When Skateboards Will Be Free
The child of would-be revolutionaries on growing up as a socialist in America.
The Lost City of Z
An Amazonian Shangri-la and the hapless adventurers who sought its secrets.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
In these stories, a clutch of modern Crusoes carve out lives on islands of their own design.
Stoppard’s Chekhov: New Adaptations
The author of the Coast of Utopia turns again to the playwright at the heart of modern drama.
American Rust
Two boys set off to escape their dying hometown, but a tragic gravity exerts its pull.
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
A life spent “between the house and the chicken yard” nurtured a writer whose short fiction plumbed the depths of…
The Vagrants
An uncompromising, haunting vision of life in China in the late 1970s.
Pamela Newkirk: Letters from Black America
A new book unveils two centuries of illuminating correspondence.
Picturing Langston Hughes
Three new illustrated volumes for children bring an exuberant visuality to the verse of an American master.