Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his...

David E Hoffman January 1977. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car.In the years that follow, that...

Kathryn Harrison In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves in The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society a stunning story of women, travel, and flight;...

Howard NormanHoward Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds...

Peter Matthiessen “You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good...

Paul Scott William Conway, half English and half Indian, reflects on his Indian childhood, education in England, and ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during World War II January 1,...

Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory,...

Dr Rachel Naomi Remen From Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Table Wisdom , a modern retelling of a timeless story about healing the...

Steve Berry Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. A young lawyer named Cotton Malone happened upon an explosive secret about what really happened that day—one that...

Lynsay Sands and Heaniene Frost With The Bite Before Christmas, Lynsay Sands and Jeaniene Frost team up to bring readers a holiday anthology with familiar faces from their Argeneau family...

American Girl

Orhan Pamuk A New Translation and Afterword by Maureen FreelyGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for...