Mark Merlis's debut novel about repressed desire and the collapse of an academic world.

Cracks in a closed world become visible through the protagonist's desire.

The first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, following her life from childhood to 1949.

Memory, politics, and growth overlap quietly in autobiographical form.

A memoir about a boy raised as white who discovers that he is Black.

The color line turns unexpectedly inside a family story.

A historical novel set in 1930s Manila, following architect Kay Fischer as a mysterious man leads her into a buried past of love and secrets.

The memories of 1930s Manila quietly unsettle a woman in the present.

A cultural history of advertising in America that traces how advertising has shaped consumer culture and social values.

Advertising has done more than sell products; it has shaped the form of desire itself.

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of Dante's Inferno, aiming to balance the original music of the poem with readability in English.

Dante's hell is heard anew in modern English.

Edward O. Wilson's autobiography, tracing his path from an insect-obsessed boyhood to a leading figure in evolutionary biology.

A quiet self-portrait of a scientist who spent his life looking closely at nature.