Lindsay Smith My mind is mine alone.Life in Washington, D.C., is not the safe haven Yulia hoped for when she risked everything to flee Communist Russia. Her father is reckless...

David Mitchell Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions...

Karl Ove Knausgard At twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations.Soon...

Andy McNab 3 AM on a frozen winter’s night, only hours after the results of the general election. A small craft skims the Thames closing in on London’s most exclusive...

Ted Chiang From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the...

Larissa Macfarquhar How far do you really go to “do unto others”? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the individuals who devote themselves fully to bettering the lives of strangers, even when...

Chesley B "Sully" Sullengerger III Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt....

Charles Glass What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian...

Lauren GrahamIn Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as...

Gerd Leonhard Futurist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything—down to human biology itself—with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness.Before...

Thomas L Friedman   In Thank You for Being Late , his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and...

Anne Tyler   How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss...