In "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa", Noah Charney reveals fascinating details about the beguiling masterpiece’s artistic and social history, including its infamous 1911 theft and two years’ absence from the Louvre. The book includes... Read More

The essays collected in "Good Eats" explore people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. Food is not just food, the book argues. To discuss food is to dig into the foundations of... Read More

Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody’s "To Catch a Dictator" is about bringing an elusive criminal to trial for his war crimes. Hissène Habré’s eight-year despotic reign of Chad was marked by political massacres, torture, and rape.... Read More

Those fallible kings who are left standing witness the storied rise of their indomnitable queens in Mindi Meltz’s stunning fantasy novel The Queen’s Rain, the third book of the After Ever After series. King Sol is dead, and Sirenia... Read More