An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them.

In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone.

Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.

A companion volume to The Company They Kept, in this book more of our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.

In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts.

Ingrid D. Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great "outburst of mental energy" we know as the Renaissance.

Nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books.

No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties.

After September 11, 2001, the Bush administration swiftly began to rethink its approach to national security. In Justice at War, David Cole takes a critical look at the men whose decisions shaped America's response to the attacks. .

Through the remarkable stories of their lives and his incisive judgments about their works, Martin Filler describes how these modern architects have transformed our sense of buildings, interiors, and the urban environment.