Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.

It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning.

This short critical biography by an expert on contemporary French literature is a fine introduction to the work of Irene Nemirovsky, author of "Suite Fran aise," who died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

... French Quarter Safe , dir . Sidney Torres , IV . 75. Alex Woodward , “ Drawn and ( French ) Quartered : A spate of violent crime in the Vieux Carre has some blaming Mayor Mitch Landrieu , " Gambit , January 8 , 2015 . 76. John Simerman ...

“One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient ...

This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community.

Impeccably researched and beautifully told, in Jonathan Swift Stubbs has found the perfect subject for this masterfully told biography of a reluctant rebel—a voice of withering disenchantment unrivaled in English.

In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft. Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two families—shattered and ultimately restored.