Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

Does successful social change require tactical prowess?

The Dog of Tithwal

By Saadat Hasan Manto; translated by Khalid Hasan and Aatish Taseer

The Dog of Tithwal

A charged, sober collection about life in post-partition India and Pakistan.

Travels with George

By Nathaniel Philbrick

Travels with George

Authorial intrusions mar this otherwise rollicking history.

Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion

A congenial consideration of the words that lure us inside the covers.

The Hero of This Book: A Novel

By Elizabeth McCracken

The Hero of This Book: A Novel

Readers will be delighted co-conspirators in allowing this memoir to masquerade as fiction.

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

An empathetic look at the power of personal mental-health narratives.

Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

A raucous, Dickensian jaunt through Jazz Age London.