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A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionFrom the moment Chief Justice Roberts botched Barack Obama's oath of office, the relationship between t...

On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their ...

The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.Ale...

This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out...

From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and...

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. ...

In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the stor...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Calling all animal lovers! A heartwarming memoir about one woman's career as a vet and the unique role pets play in our...

“David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next."—George R. R. MartinDavid Anthony Durham’s gripping Acacia T...

Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately pr...

In Berlin, two former French intelligence agents hire Klaus Reiner, a ruthlessly effective hit man, to eliminate an American industrialist vacation...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once he was a well-liked, well-paid young partner in a thriving Mississippi law firm. Then Patrick Lanigan stole nin...

This fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century—and the women who made their work possible—is set a...

This fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century—and the women who made their work possible—is set a...

With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan. Through the...

This bestselling biography of one of the 20th century's most remarkable and controversial writers is now available in paperback.  Author Barbara Br...

A startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers, the book chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional od...

In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers sh...

   Steven Frank has a new approach to writing: fun first, rules to follow, success for all. In The Pen Commandments, his offbeat and entertaining g...

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. ...

The latest book in Alexander McCall Smith's popular 44 Scotland Street series is a sheer delight.   Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long da...

A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of...

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson—a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, ...