This novel?s unlikely hero is a Japanese mathematician whose memory lasts for only 80 minutes.

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Marlon James?s green-eyed protagonist believes she is better than the other slaves on a Jamaican plantation.

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An anthology of the earliest superhero stories; a ?serious parody? of old superhero comics by Jonathan Lethem; and the final volume of Grant Morrison?s ?All-Star Superman.?

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The first English version of this 1947 novel, based on a real-life German couple who mounted modest but suicidal resistance against Hitler.

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A journalist follows the trail of Percy Fawcett?s 1925 fatal quest for a fabled city of gold in the Amazon jungle.

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A history of the morbid, musical, quarrelsome, brilliant Wittgensteins.

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In this memoir, an American journalist?s fascination with an elusive Iranian mirrors her fraught relation to her parents? homeland.

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Molly Haskell?s feminist perspective comes to the rescue of ?Gone With the Wind,? a film most academics won?t touch and current critics dismiss.

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Witty, obsessed and almost inhumanly brave, Flannery O?Connor was peculiar, her work even more so. But Brad Gooch?s biography strives to make it all quite normal ? under the circumstances, of course.

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In this novel, Holocaust survivors grapple with grim legacies.

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With the cruel bombing of Sept. 16, 1920, as her centerpiece, Beverly Gage provides a survey of industrial warfare in the United States.

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Dan Baum?s profiles make up a vivid portrait of New Orleans in all its generosity and folly.

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Johanna Reiss, who wrote the classic young adult Holocaust memoir ?The Upstairs Room,? decodes her husband?s 1969 suicide.

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William H. Goetzmann?s strange and valuable book is an intellectual history of American identity and what he calls the country?s ?cosmotopian ideals.?

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In this novel, a young Australian having an affair with her boss disappears on the eve of her parents? visit.

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David Denby attacks the phenomenon known as snark.

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Profiles of eight addicts struggling toward recovery, from a former boxer on heroin to a compulsive shoplifter.

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A lively chronicle of sleaze and vapidity in Miami Beach, from the era of Capone to Sinatra and Madonna.

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A study of Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, a murderous army officer who seized control of Mongolia after the fall of czarist Russia.

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When it comes to the matter of poetic ?greatness,? questions abound, and there are no easy answers.

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In Helen Garner?s novel, the protagonist discovers that caring for a dying friend is far from simple.

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A grand narrative of the events leading to the Great Depression, built around the stories of four powerful central bankers.

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Two garden designers write about the life — and garden — they share.

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Shirley Hazzard records her love affair with Naples in these essays.

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A life of Booker T. Washington — part biography, part history — attempts to put his brand of black empowerment into context.

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