With the recent aftermath of Hurricane Katrina looming in the background, Wright’s new novel hovers delicately between the reality of the hurricane’s catastrophic damage to the city of New Orleans, and the intertwined lives of a few... Read More

Most travel guides are jammed with star ratings and brief descriptions of hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife. By contrast, this book is full of art images, maps, and summary sidebars ranging in topics from the Reformation to... Read More

According to legend, the first marathoner, Pheidippides, ran from the Greek town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Greeks had defeated the Persians; also according to legend, he promptly fell down dead. Today, millions of... Read More

It is rare to find a book with a half-dead protagonist. Tyler Leto is a corrupt adulterous and drug-abusing businessman who has become caught between life and Hell in "Grendel" Ken Brosky’s first novel. After a realistically depicted... Read More

At some point every child seeks reassurance that the academic challenges faced in school are meaningful. These questions become much more poignant when posed by an aboriginal child whose western—style schooling is so different from the... Read More

“I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1750. Dr. Johnson’s eighteenth century vision for biography was not merely that it... Read More

When Karolina Staszek shows up in Phillip Landau’s Manhattan law office one rainy afternoon in 1967 claiming to be his long-lost cousin—who was thought to have been killed during the Holocaust more than twenty years earlier—Phillip... Read More

That dreaded meeting with the boss—a few issues need to be discussed. Perhaps some deadlines have been missed, or a couple of angry outbursts escaped during meetings. Everyone has weaknesses that surface at work, and when they do,... Read More