A new, repackaged translation of three Greek tragedies about the House of Atreus, from three different authors: Aeschylus??Agamemnon,? Sophocles??Electra,? Euripides??Orestes.?

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Jane Vandenburgh?s memoir of her father?s suicide, her mother?s madness, and her own struggles with love and survival.

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David Plotz?s chapter-by-chapter, verse-by-verse riffs on the Hebrew Bible are by turns entertaining, serious, shallow, profound, literal-minded, cute, ingratiating, hilarious.

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Russell Brand?s memoir is a child?s garden of vices, as well as a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.

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This polished debut story collection takes its sustenance from class conflict, rough men and strong women, and the intersection between hotheads and cool customers.

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A history of quantum mechanics that goes beyond the point in the 1920s where most popular science books leave off.

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Julie Greene?s history of the Panama Canal concentrates on the human dimension of the project: a great army of international laborers.

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A prominent cognitive psychologist stresses the nonhereditary factors in determining I.Q.

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In this novel of pilgrimage, a Jewish caravan treks through Eastern Europe toward Jerusalem — and the hope of psychic healing.

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The biographer Michael Holroyd presents the lives and families of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, theatrical legends of their time.

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Alan Wolfe?s defense of liberalism and Jedediah Purdy?s reconciliation of radical individualism with community obligation address a common theme: the nature of freedom.

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In Janet Burroway?s novel, a newly widowed woman deals with questions of race, love and home.

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In the poorest countries, elections can increase political violence, an economist says.

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An exploration of the brain?s mechanics in the process of making decisions, with illustrative examples.

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This novel?s angry heroine is thrust into the volatile world of her dying husband?s family, which includes his ?utterly identical? twin.

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Meyer?s crime novel/road novel hybrid also manages to chronicle life in a dying mill town.

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Mary Gaitskill implicates the reader in what feels like a violation of her own characters, whose lives are more often broken than in any way admirable.

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Tracy Daugherty creates a convincing narrative from a life that was engaged, passionate and maybe even fulfilled, without dwelling on Barthelme?s dark soul or his uneven work.

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A former Marine lieutenant provides raw, bullet-by-bullet footage from Ramadi, Iraq, during the most violent days of the insurgency there.

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In reporting this book all about baseball umpires, Bruce Weber went to one of their schools and even stood behind the plate.

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A lively, panoramic history of a year of European revolts ranking alongside the better-known upheavals of 1776 and 1789.

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In this first novel, a young Mexican Jew living in Germany supports herself by transcribing notes for an elderly historian.

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In this short but complex first novel, a couple?s search for a missing cradle becomes a life-rattling trip.

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Rashid Khalidi argues that Washington?s drive for hegemonic control over the Middle East stretches back three-quarters of a century, and has continued unabated to this day.

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Olen Steinhauer?s protagonist, a C.I.A. operative who longs to get out of the game, puts his family at risk when he is coerced into one last mission.

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