Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw
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A meditation on witchcraft, memory, and identity.
Read MoreThe Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle
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A philosopher considers how George Eliot wrote about—and experienced—marriage.
Read MoreThe Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
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This extraordinary collection of stories considers the impact of injustice based on race and gender oppression, the shifting meanings of history, and the complex emotions of grief.
Read MoreThe Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
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A sparkling new one-volume biography of Graham Greene considers not only Greene’s novels but his work on behalf of human rights violations around the world, his struggles with faith, and his subtle yearning for joy.
Read MoreShakespearean by Robert McCrum
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An author considers why the words of William Shakespeare continue to hold such relevance even in today’s difficult times—for us and for himself.
Read MoreThe Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson
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Instead of recounting the story of a Victorian sentimentalist or a benevolent social critic, A. N. Wilson points to the dark side of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreUnfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
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A critic and journalist considers how a lifetime of experience has opened her eyes to new meanings in old books.
Read MoreAusten Years by Rachel Cohen
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A graceful and deeply introspective memoir written by a woman who reads and rereads Jane Austen to help her confront the changes occurring in her own life, and learns that her personal experiences give her a new lens to explore the meaning of Austen’s novels.
Read MoreBecoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous
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The charming memoir of a fictional character and her anonymous creator.
Read MoreThin Places by Jordan Kisner
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A debut collection of essays exploring the places where two worlds touch.
Read MoreThe Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
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While looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
Read MoreMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
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A genre-bending work of an author researching Carson McCullers and finding herself.
Read MoreWhat Is the Grass by Mark Doty
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A contemporary poet discovers he “contains multitudes”--and pairs his intimate memoir with a close reading of the work of Walt Whitman.
Read MoreThese Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
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A new biography of Emily Dickinson—told in ten episodes which “tell it slant.”
Read MoreRebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
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A Jewish immigrant and factory worker catapults to national prominence in the first decade of the twentieth century--partly because of her charismatic leadership in radical organizations such as the Socialist party, and partly because of her marriage to a scion of one of the wealthiest families in the United States.
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