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;...

Louise Erdrich At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother on the reservation. There he comes to terms with his heritage, his future, and his...

Jeremy Rifkin When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and...

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...

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,...

Joanna Kavenna From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth—past, present, and futureThe year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been...

Stephen Leather Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl - and the past...

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...