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Celebrated as a charming rogue who outwitted the Nazis, a spectacular art forgeris instead revealed as a talented but venal opportunist.

A Serbian American writer undertakes a journey to understand how Lazarus Averbuch, a survivor of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom, ended up dying in Chicago in 1908.

An outsider's report on Hasidim who chafe at the restrictions imposed by their piousJewish way of life.

Surveying more than a century of advocacy for animals in the United States, Diane L.Beers notes continuities with contemporary issues and tactics.

When Benjamin Ziskind steals a painting by Marc Chagall during a singles gathering at amuseum, the theft has implications reaching back two generations and ahead into the world tocome.

In Meg Wolitzer's sixth novel, a wife provides her version of almost fifty yearsof marriage to a celebrated author.

An enthralling historical tale of an Englishman's seduction by Asia.

A wistful thriller that spans generations and continents, a blend of John le Carre and Dr. Zhivago refracted through the language of Marcel Proust.

An elegiac novel of and from post-World War II Germany, published for the first time in English.

Willie Morris's posthumously published autobiographical novel is an elegiac story about coming-of-age during the Korean War.

In this erudite entertainment, a bibliophile and a professor seek the truth about an obscure eighteenth century encyclopedia.

Poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosins autobiographical vignettes about her childhood in Chile and her exile in the United States.

Ward Just's twelfth novel is a closely observed study of illusions and their consequences during the early stages of American involvement in Vietnam.

GIVING UP AMERICA records the final months in the marriage of Daniel and Deena Binet, twenty-nine and twenty-six, respectively, man and wife for seven years.

In REQUIEM FOR HARLEM, the fourth, posthumously published, installment in an autobiographical fictional cycle titled MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, Henry Roth (1906-1995) follows Ira Stigman during a momentous November week in 1927.

In a novel about the burdens of a traumatic past, a Holocaust survivor spends each year making a railway circuit of Central Europe in search of Jewish artifacts and of revenge against the Nazi officer who murdered his parents.

ALBERT CAMUS: A LIFE draws on newly available sources to provide the first full scale biography in almost twenty years of the French novelist, essayist, and playwright.

In AMERICAN PASTORAL, Philip Roth revives his fictional surrogate Nathan Zuckerman to ponder the misfortune that befalls Seymour "Swede" Levov, a childhood hero and a paragon of postwar America.

A collection of essays, mostly by practicing biographers, on their craft.

SLOWNESS, Czech author Milan Kundera's first novel in French, is a playful excursion into eighteenth century France and an inquiry into the nature of pleasure that conflates past and present and fiction and actuality.

In OUR WAR: WHAT WE DID IN VIETNAM AND WHAT IT DID TO US, David Harris, a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, attempts a belated reckoning of the conflict's causes, conduct, and consequences.

In FROM BONDAGE, the third installment in a projected six-novel cycle titled MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, the first one published posthumously, Henry Roth continues to trace the sentimental education of alter ego Ira Stigman through his college years.

Umberto Eco, the prodigious Italian novelist and polymath, traces an alluring idea about language from its origins in myth to recent application in artificial intelligence and translation theory.

In Oscar Hijuelos' gentle fourth novel, a kindly, reverent man's life is blighted and challenged when his beloved seventeen-year-old son is murdered on a New York City street.

In her first novel since winning the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for A THOUSAND ACRES, Jane Smiley turns from tragedy--KING LEAR transposed to contemporary Iowa--to travesty, an academic satire as broad as the rump of the seven-hundred-pound pig who is a crucial figure in the fiction.

In a series of lectures delivered in Jerusalem, Stanley Cavell, a professor at Harvard University, links meditations on the concept of voice to reflections on how he came to develop his own voice as a professional philosopher.

In 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky returns from Dresden to St. Petersburg to contend with the violent death of his twenty-two-year-old stepson Pavel and with the mysteries of literary mastery.

AND ALL OUR WOUNDS FORGIVEN changes the name of the historical hero, Martin Luther King, Jr., who is the focus of the fiction, but not enough to protect his innocence.

As Maximilian Strong, professor of law at Harvard, sees it, renowned architect Charlie Swan and his protege Toby were ardent lovers until the younger man expired of a fatal disease. Attentive readers will see much more.

When two literature professors at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem are murdered, Batya Gur dispatches Michael Ohayon, a perceptive detective in her earlier mystery novels, to solve the crimes and discover truths about art and life.

In his thirteenth book translated into English, Israeli author Oz takes the pulse of a troubled character and society.

Aging and arthritic, legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call undertakes a final mission in a worthy sequel to Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning LONESOME DOVE (1985).

In a brief book with spare style, Swedish poet and novelist Lars Gustafsson captures a day in the life of an aging tile-layer.

Present at the creation of National Public Radio news, Susan Stamberg offers transcripts of and commentary on about a hundred of the twenty thousand interviews and reports she has broadcast since 1971.

In her sixteenth book, her first set entirely in North America, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, known for her novels and screenplays of India, tells the story of Angel, a self-effacing New York woman who allows herself to be dominated by her pretty, self-indulgent, and unstable cousin Lara.

During an eventful visit to Israel, Philip Roth meets Philip Roth, an imposter on an anti-Zionist crusade, in a coy "confession" that might be a fabrication.

In a miscellany of twenty autobiographical essays, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet reminisces about and ponders objects, places, and moments of particular personal significance.

South African novelist J.M. Coetzee reprints and, through conversations with David Attwell, comments on a collection of his nonfiction writings.

Though his emphasis is on recent versions of the aversion, Robert S. Wistrich offers a concise, accessible survey of what he calls "the longest hatred," an enmity almost as old as the Jews themselves.

Situating her second novel in a bleak southern California sixty years from now, Cynthia Kadohata offers a nightmare of urban decay and a lesson in redemption through love.

"My sincerest wish is that this book changes your life," proclaims Jay Kordich. THE JUICEMAN'S POWER OF JUICING exhorts the reader to follow the practice that the ebullient author claims saved his life fifty years ago and keeps him vigorous at sixty-nine.

Lydia Minatoya does not exactly talk to monks, high or low, in the snow. The title of her first book is borrowed from its epigraph, an excerpt from a work by seventeenth century author Chen Jiru that records details from an attentive life. TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW records details from the forty-two years of an attentive Japanese American.

In his eighth novel, ingenious English author Martin Amis shoots time's arrow backward, as the life of a Nazi death camp doctor is play in reverse.

In THE WHITE CASTLE, his fourth published novel and first translated into English, Orhan Pamuk creates a terse metaphysical puzzle set in seventeenth century Turkey.