Pamela Norris

Women Can Do It, Too

The World According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own

By Cullen Murphy

Anne Applebaum

Surviving the Polish Horror

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

By Wladyslaw Szpilman

The Ice Road

By Stefan Waydenfeld

Bryan Appleyard

How They All Admired Us Before We Fell Apart

Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe

By Ian Buruma

Gavin Esler

American Underside

Cold New World

By William Finnegan

Anthony Holden

Glimpse of Intelligence Too Vast to Apprehend

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By Harold Bloom

Donald Rayfield

An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End

Pushkin's Button

By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)