The Lost Books of the Odyssey
One of the most well-known stories of European literature is shattered, and re-made anew.
Barnes & Noble Reads
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.
Churchill: A Life
One of the most contradictory personalities of the 20th century turned out to be one of its most pivotal.
Just Kids
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a passionate friendship that rocked the music and art worlds.
The Ticking Is the Bomb
In an act of daring juxtaposition, the award-winning poet and memoirist meditates on the arrival of his child in a…
The Swan Thieves
The new novel by the author of The Historian turns away from vampires to obsessions of more mortal flesh.
Anne Tyler
An email conversation with the author about her new book, the work of planning a novel, and what books she’d…
Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 3: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
An ambitious novel brings urgent suspense to a philosophical question: how we can know what our words really mean?
Charles Dickens
The first major biography of the writer in two decades offers a stunningly detailed portrait of a life steeped in…
The Pleasures of Cooking for One
A cookbook for when dinner doesn’t require a party.