Elise Hellman was once heralded by audiences and critics as a "playwright to watch." Then they forgot all about her.... Read More

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Linda Haley is awakened early one morning by two police officers at the door. She has... Read More

W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) as “a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing... Read More

In Burning Sky, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first, a cantankerous climatologist, raises... Read More

Conor O'Toole has never been anywhere as casually glamorous as Cutters Neck, a gated community near Cape Cod. It's a... Read More

Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions—from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains,... Read More

Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his... Read More

Jocelyn Banks has always felt like an outsider in the ballet world. She was raised in rural Louisiana, taught to scrap... Read More

Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications, this volume is a tour... Read More

With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to... Read More