A biography of Lewis Carroll concentrates less on Alice and more on his mathematical adventures.

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A teasing tale of courtship, art and murder in 18th-century dress.

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A reporter explores the New York Police Department?s counterterrorism unit.

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Adrian Desmond and James Moore?s book links Darwin?s hatred of slavery with his work on natural selection; Adam Gopnik?s compares Darwin?s writing style with Lincoln?s.

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In 1920s Hollywood, Joseph Kennedy owned three studios and made a fortune.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle?s mesmerizing novel approaches Frank Lloyd Wright?s complexities through the lens of his messy romantic relationships.

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Two new biographies celebrate Samuel Johnson?s tercentenary.

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A sports columnist pays tribute to what happens off the field on Super Bowl Sunday ? from the business deals to the parties.

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A professor of philosophy connects modern preferences in literature, music and art to those of prehistoric humans.

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An intellectual history of how the concept of evolution evolved in the decades after the Civil War.

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A look at the classical age of science and the early history of the United States through the work of the remarkable Joseph Priestley.

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The Organization Man has given way to a new breed of American, a sociologist says.

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Norah Vincent reports from inside three mental institutions.

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Many of Ali Smith?s new stories concern a nameless couple.

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A wintry American novel of identity and belonging, set in coastal Maine.

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Glen Duncan?s novel of ideas presents a journalist turned restaurateur turned terrorist who falls into American hands.

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The first English-language edition of one of the very greatest writers on ballet, who witnessed the mythic Russian ballerinas of the early 20th century.

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A modern history of Texas told through the lives of its Big Four founders of family fortunes.

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With his memoir of Alaska, the Inupiat elder William L. Iggiagruk Hensley offers a coming-of-age story for a state and a people.

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The memoir of an American publisher who gained access to the Soviet archives.

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In four new books, hopeful progressives interpret the 2008 election and Barack Obama?s coming presidency.

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Jeff Madrick argues that the need for federal spending is apparent even to conservatives, as a time of recovery requires investment in the country?s future.

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Bruce Riedel and Tariq Ali weigh the pros and cons of continuing and escalating the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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These essays by scholars at two think tanks view Iran as crucial to the resolution of a host of problems in the Middle East.

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Mark K. Updegrove examines the record of eight presidents who took office in perilous times.

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