This award-winning debut boasts virtuoso range and depth.

• Fiction,
• Short Stories,

This second installment of a two-volume “fictional biography” is remarkably compassionate toward the scandalous Roman.

• Fiction,
• Historical Fiction,

This deceptively simple "ordinary boy" tale offers readers space to contemplate their own childhoods.

• Fiction,
• Young Adult,

In honor of Patricia Wald, a trailblazing judge who passed away yesterday at 90, we share here a review she wrote for the Independent in 2011.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,

A page-turner whose elusiveness leaves us longing for more.

• Fiction,

This fictional take on Shakespeare and his brother could have used more excitement.

• Fiction,

Recalling the Allies' quest to own the skies.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

From today’s China, a sardonic fable about social conformity and the impulses it suppresses.

• Fiction,