Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
A study of the most attention-getting of body parts reveals an organ as mysterious as it is vital.
Useless Landscape: A Guide for Boys
A California haunted by death and suffused with sex is the subject of D. A. Powell's biting collection of verse.
By Blood
The secrets of the consulting room travel through walls and breed a man's obsession with a stranger.
The Annotated Emerson
A new collection helps readers to appreciate the "new yet unapproachable" American thinker.
The Tender Hour of Twilight
A publishing legend's glory days.
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
A wannabe-fashionista becomes a victim of national-security paranoia in this darkly comic novel.
The Death of King Arthur and Seeing Stars
The poet's new translation of a medieval Arthurian epic -- and some new enchantments of his own.
"Something Urgent I Have to Say to You"
A new biography of the poet, doctor, and plainspoken revolutionary.
Something Urgent I Have to Say to You
A new biography of the poet, doctor, and plainspoken revolutionary.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
An exploration of the imperfect art of translation.
Believing Is Seeing
The Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker explores the nature of truth in photographs.
The Submission
A committee's choice rocks a city in a novel that confronts questions of grief and the ownership of memory.
