Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
Philip Ball
Like the “curio cabinets” of the past, this book is stuffed with fascinating accounts of how our views of the natural world have changed.
Andrew Branch looks at the newly translated novel by Hervé Le Tellier, a prominent OuLiPo writer.
Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss
Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill
A new biography of fearsome mobster, most wanted fugitive, and longtime FBI informer Whitey Bulger arrives just in time for his trial in 19 murders and other crimes.
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
Stretching from Zimbabwe to Michigan, the hardship and rootlessness of a young girl’s life is the focus of this debut novel.
TransAtlantic
Colum McCann
In fluid and evocative prose, the author interweaves the stories of characters both real and imagined on two continents over several generations.
The Self Beyond Itself
Heidi M. Ravven
An Alternative History of Ethics, The New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will.
The Other Typist
Suzanne Rindell
A prudish typist in Prohibition-Era New York falls under the spell of her enticing coworker.
The errors of five giants of science and the role these mistakes played in the vital process of discovery.
Seduction: a Novel of Suspense
M. J. Rose
A quest to uncover a lost account of Victor Hugo’s spiritualist ideas leads to hidden caverns and troubling psychic connections on the Isle of Jersey.
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Two women who flouted their families’ wishes and married men who played key roles in the Revolutionary War.