The Magus of Dreams
/Victorian author Thomas DeQuincey will forever be known mainly as the author of the fantastic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but a vivid new biography introduces readers to the man behind the masterpiece.
Read MoreThe Secret Things of the Earth
/A new biography explores the complicated life of the writer who gave us "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery."
Read MoreOn Venusberg by Anthony Powell
/Anthony Powell's name is synonymous with his twelve-volume behemoth "A Dance to the Music of Time." But he had a long and varied writing career, and his early novel Venusberg, Levi Stahl contends, is well worth searching out in the shade of "Dance."
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