Non-fiction

In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations of these two powers back to the Persian Empire of the ...

As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with Mao and his Communist rebels. But by year's end Communist diplomacy had all but fr...

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subje...

"I’m here to prevent a major and imminent attack. One that will kill children. I’m alone and operational in the country where my colleague was take...

From the titans of America's Gilded Age (Carnegie, Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depres...

"If you're afraid of butter, use cream." So decrees Julia Child, the legendary culinary authority and cookbook author who taught America how to coo...

From one of the nation’s preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores t...

After selling her first novel--a dream she'd worked long and hard for--Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven...

A rare, intimate portrait of Christopher Nolan with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who opened up more fully than ever before in his talks wi...