"Elegantly contemplative.[O]ffers a powerfully human sense of the struggle it takes for new ideas to dislodge old ones." Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review Dramas both personal and cosmic unfold around five pivotal moments in the history o
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"Elegantly contemplative.[O]ffers a powerfully human sense of the struggle it takes for new ideas to dislodge old ones." Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review Dramas both personal and cosmic unfold around five pivotal moments in the history o
Servants of the Map sweeps through two centuries, from the Western Himalayas to the Adirondacks, conjuring characters that travel through the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks r
The Narwhal has a simple mission: to find the remains-human and material-of a disappeared ship. But its rash and obsessive young commander, Zeke Voorhees, has ulterior motives that may spell doom for the Narwhal and its crew. His soon-to-be brother-in-law
Hailed as a "genius-enchantress" (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and written acclaimed and prizewinning works of hi