Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
The story of Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate becomes a tale of a pivotal moment in American moviemaking.
Barnes & Noble Reads
Toga Tabloid: The Lives of the Caesars
Michael Dirda on the gripping, gossipy style of the Roman historian Suetonius.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
A historian tracks the cataclysmic effects of the American Civil War on the psyche of a nation.
The Senator’s Wife
The gulf between lives shadows a story of a friendship and two uncertain marriages.
Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
James Mustich talks with Geraldine Brooks about the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah and her new novel.
Life Class
The celebrated author of the Regeneration Trilogy returns to the trauma of World War I, on and off the battlefield.
William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories
A new collection of early fiction from a writer focused on the heart.
The Spies Come Out of the Cold: New Espionage Fiction
Spy novels for the 21st century.
People of the Book
A centuries-old Haggadah provides the linchpin for Geraldine Brooks’s sweeping new novel.
Sex, Debt, and Revenge: Balzac’s Cousin Bette
Novelist Min Jin Lee on Balzac’s masterful tale of obsession, Cousin Bette.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Philip Pullman: The Storyteller’s Art
James Mustich talks with Philip Pullman about the power of storytelling and the film version of The Golden Compass.
Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
A memoir from the reporter who covered every NASA launch.
Translating Tolstoy: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky on translating War and Peace.
The Queen of the Tambourine
A series of unanswered letters, and a journey down the rabbit hole of one woman’s mind.
Tomorrow
A sleeping family is the audience for a mother’s midnight confession.
Roth on Zuckerman’s Curtain Call
A conversation with the author about Nathan Zuckerman’s final bow.