The House of Morgan

…and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite simply, a tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review…

The Last Stand of Fox Company

From the best-selling authors of Halsey’s Typhoon (“Powerful and engrossing,” Mark Bowden), this is the true story of a Marine company’s heroic last stand during America’s “Forgotten War.”…

The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

The Devil Tree

“Savage . . . [Whalen is] a foolproof, timeless American character. . . . Each horrid, magical episode . . . releases, between the lines, unspoken words about the nature…

A Woman Run Mad

“Breathtaking . . . one of the most intense reading experiences I’ve had in recent memory . . . Impossible to put down.” –The New York Times Book Review…

A Confederacy of Dunces

“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.” –The New York Times Book Review…

A Diamond in the Desert

…guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast boom town to date.” —Bloomberg News…

Grove at Home: March 14-20

…Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses anti-Asian violence on NewsHour The brilliant Viet Thanh Nguyen was already scheduled to appear on PBS NewsHour yesterday to discuss anti-Asian violence in America, when, on…

Numbers

The Breaking of Nations

…to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The New York Times…