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A Boston Globe Best Book of the YearIn these nine virtuoso stories, Helen Simpson turns her wickedly wry wit to the stations of life, the vulnerabilities of age, and the lives of ordinary people in...

An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over. In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about...

From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing...

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A...

"This book explores the representation of Helen of Troy in Hollywood film and television, with a particular focus on her defining features: transcendent beauty and transgressive erotic agency. The...

Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a...

"In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming...

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The...

"In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. That is part of the human experience. Learning how to be sad is a natural first step in how to be happier."--Meik Wiking, CEO of the...

Talking to the Dead is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's fourth novel. There's nothing closer than sisters . . . Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the beloved master of Australian letters Helen Garner comes a brand new work of nonfiction, exploring boyhood, football, and the quotidian joys...

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of Kirkus Reviews's Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50...

From acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions,...

A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." ―People magazine"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but...

From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the...

"As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be...

The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devastating collision course."Part thriller, part Hollywood satire, Lucky Dogs is a brash, sometimes...

A marine biologist vividly brings alive the extraordinary ecosystem of the deep ocean--a realm about which we know less than we do about the Moon--and shows how protecting rather than exploiting it...

An Esquire "Best Books of Summer 2025" "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life."--Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Set in...

Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: "A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse." --Booklist A co-founder of Physicians...