From the “King Daddy” of crime with a twist, a never-before-published story about a young couple whose remote homestead is invaded by a pair of terrifyingly unwelcome visitors.

Published here for the first time, Elmore Leonard’s darkly playful story of a priest whose vows of nonviolence are put to the test in an Old West Arizona town.

An early short story from the wickedly funny bestselling author, featuring a cast of classically Hiaasen miscreants in 1980s Miami.

In this story by bestselling, beloved author Jodi Picoult, a young boy learns painful lessons about class and race at an idyllic summer camp.

Where were you when you heard the news that Kennedy had been shot? An exclusive collection of memories from Nora Ephron, Jimmy Carter, James Patterson, Meryl Streep, and many others.

An exquisitely unsettling tale about a young single mother whose new home is already inhabited by her neighbors’ pets—fat, hungry, and multiplying daily.

The life and violent times of Griselda Blanco, Pablo Escobar’s feared rival and the most notorious, murderous queen-pin of the Colombian drug wars.

The acclaimed author of the blockbuster The Professor and the Madman tells the tale of his own descent into madness.

The unforgettable true story of three childhood friends whose lives, loves, and town were torn apart by the Civil War.

In episode four of Positron, our happy couple Stan and Charmaine enter a darkly devious world of faked executions, sexbots, and Elvis impersonators.

From the author of Jarhead, the story of the life and shocking murder of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American military history.

A comic and Kafkaesque series of fictional vignettes about our interactions with the divine, from the acclaimed author of State of Grace.

A solitary, unspeaking boy, floating upon the ocean, is taken aboard a tanker in this seafaring fever dream in the tradition of Joseph Conrad.

In this poetic, moving memoir, Joshua Prager tells the story of the bus crash on an Israeli road that broke his neck and turned his life into “before” and “after.”

A sinister yet comical story straight from the passive-aggressive front lines of modern marriage, where a wife’s frustration, along with the family cat, become weapons of mass destruction.

A heartbreaking and often hilarious novella about a decent man’s attempt to find some peace, and perhaps love, on a trip to one of Europe’s most romantic cities.

A shocking novella from Ames, the beloved creator of Bored to Death. Meet Joe, an ass-kicking, psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself.

In this love letter to his late mother, the bestselling author of Up in the Air finds solace in the handwritten notes she left in her Bible.

In part three of Atwood’s Positron, the dystopian dark comedy takes its darkest turn yet, pitting husband against wife and the human impulse to love against the animal instinct to survive.

In this long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss examines the never-ending case of Jeffrey MacDonald, accused of brutally killing his wife and two daughters in 1970.

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and War comes a rare work of fiction in which man’s unrelenting savagery meets his capacity for cowardice—and courage.

In the second installment of the serial novel Strange Creatures, Kaity Stapleton is summoned to help a willful tree nymph whose mysterious illness spreads to everything around her.

The first installment of the serial novel Strange Creatures, about a young woman who inherits her father’s secret veterinary practice—and finds herself treating the fantastical beasts she thought only existed in the imagination.

Death in the boxing ring, an abusive father, and piecing it all together.

A true chronicle of waste, fraud, and abuse.

Leaving Canada for a two-timing Magazine Street bartender may not have been such a poor decision after all.

Joellyn tells her unborn daughter the story of her courtship with an unemployed, terribly-dressed man named Zachary. This novella is a romantic comedy—if romantic comedies were dark and screwed up and no one got exactly what they wanted.

This year, nearly two million men will boil over and smack her, and many of those men will be ordered to undergo treatment. The problem is, the dominant treatment model—mired in feminist orthodoxy—doesn’t work.

High-altitude helicopters on Mount ­Everest and other Nepalese peaks has transformed search-and-­rescue and saved lives. But the choppers have also ­added to the chaos at the top of the world—and introduced a deadly new brand of danger.

A plumbing mistake fills a Mexican desert with water, wildlife, and irony.

The speech patterns of NPR listeners and hipsters has created a new social elite: the Stammering Class.

Rewriting our personal narratives.

The funeral industry prepares for boom times.

How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of black writers.

In the wake of Marissa Mayer’s jump from Google—where her dazzle sometimes wore thin—to run the struggling Yahoo, the author asks whether she will be its savior or its next big problem. A year and a half in, the results are mixed.

A few hopeful Israeli and Palestinian conservationists are tracing a new path along the flyways and wildlife corridors of the Jordan Valley—and rediscovering an ancient road map that leads from terror to peace.

In 1982 a brutal triple homicide shook the city of Waco and soon became one of the most confounding criminal cases in Texas history—one that still haunts the many people who have tried to solve it.

An exclusive excerpt from Erika Hayasaki’s book about an extraordinary nurse who teaches a popular college “death class” whose lesson—despite trips to cemeteries, morgues, and crematoriums—is really about how to get the most out of life.

The perils of openness in government.

As the tech industry finally turns its attention to architecture, the author explores what companies’ choices reveal about their cultures, their workforces, and the shifting relationship between city and suburbs.