"When Victorians dreamed, they dreamed of the future," says the heroine of Bharati Mukherjee's new novel. "I dreamed of the past." This potent [...]

Many of these finely crafted stories revolve around circus life in a small Indiana town in the late 1800s and early 1900s. According [...]

During the run up to this year's World Cup, the Vietnamese government warned its soccer-mad population about the health concerns of viewing too [...]

How is it that our world produces forms as fragile, beautiful and unlikely as butterflies, along with greed, war and the inevitability of [...]

Everything you've ever wanted to know, and then some, about where little boys and girls come from. Gonzalez-Crussi, a pathology professor at Northwestern [...]

Novels set in Africa are habitually compared to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, especially when they're written by white authors and touch on the [...]

It's a pity the Bush-bashing book genre is dominated by screeds that have as much to do with their author's vanity as with [...]

By most accounts, this novel, set in the closing days of World War I, is a strikingly accomplished debut. The Last Day of [...]

"I lie awake," quips a character in Julian Barnes' new story collection, The Lemon Table, "and think of the advantages of dying. Not [...]

The fantastic tales in Sheryl Tempchin's small press venture, Zahir, which is scheduled to appear three times a year, seem to me a [...]