Robert V. Camuto's interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. Corkscrewed recounts Camuto's journey through France s myriad regions and how the journey brought about a profound change in everything he believed about wine. Th...

Rewind to the 1950s and ponder: was America's first satellite really built by a college student? How did a small band of underappreciated Russian engineers get pictures of the moon s far side using stolen American film? As the 1960s progressed, consider: how the heck did people learn to steer a spac...

Willa Cather's fiction frequently plays out on the divide, the high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a child. This book suggests that Cather s own life played out on a divide as well, deliberately measured out between different roles and personae that made their way into h...

This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquan...