Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that ...

A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for L...

Taking care of other people's children is a job many young people enjoy doing and do well. It's a...

'An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, followi...

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collect...

The final volume ends as the author wished-not with her last two years of pain but at a joyous, r...

'A multifaceted journey that is geographical, personal and political . . . A complex, nuanced vie...

In this timely and controversial work, Sue Hubbell contends that the concept of genetic engineeri...

The Hermit's Story is Rick Bass's best and most varied fiction yet. In the title story, a man and...

A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of ...

Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpol...

'A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help o...