ECSTATIC NATION: CONFIDENCE, CRISIS, AND COMPROMISE, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple was pick of the week in Publishers Weekly and received a starred review, which raved that “Acclaimed biographer Wineapple..gracefully choreographs a staggering number of primary sources, weaving disparate voices together into one revelatory thread.”

Nicholas Christopher’s TIGER RAG has received positive reviews from The Washington Post, GQ.com, The Toronto Star, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and The New York Post. The Washington Post raves, “you’ll love this ambitious, thoughtful novel.” The Dial Press published the book January 1, 2013.

SPARTA by Roxana Robinson received a starred review in Booklist: “Robinson tells tales of psychic maladies with spellbinding intensity and acute insight…Robinson’s diligently researched and profoundly realized tale of a warrior’s trauma and his family’s struggle to help him is a beautifully incisive, respectful, suspenseful, and indicting drama of our failure to grasp the full toll of war.” Sarah Crichton Books/FSG will publish the book June 4, 2013.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers', ZOOBIQUITY was featured in The New York Times along with an interview of Barbara Natterson-Horowitz. Vintage published the trade paperback edition April 9, 2013.

Robert Caro was interviewed on the Monday May 6, 2013 episode of THE COLBERT REPORT on the occasion of the paperback publication of THE PASSAGE OF POWER. Vintage published the trade paperback edition on May 7, 2013.

The May 6, 2013 edition of USA TODAY says “Some might feel it’s quintessentially Poitier. Elegant, if a book can be elegant, with a bit of mystery and Caribbean flavor thrown in for good measure. Like his famed movie roles in Lilies of the Field and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, he once again offers up a moving performance.” Spiegel and Grau published the book on May 7, 2013.

A GUIDE TO BEING BORN received a glowing review in the May 5 New York Times Book Review. The reviewer Helen Oyemymi praised Ausubel for "the measured elegance of her prose" and noted that "the dismay of coming to the final page is easily combated by following the example of Ausubel’s characters and beginning all over again.” Riverhead published the book May 2, 2013.

Jeffrey Eugenides is being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The induction ceremony will take place on October 12, 2013.
His most recent novel, THE MARRIAGE PLOT, was published by Farrar, Staus & Giroux October 11, 2011.

HARVARD SQUARE by André Aciman received glowing praise in the New York Times Sunday Book Review May 5: “His sentences call to mind the late work of V.S. Naipaul: comfortable, unforced, conversational, unafraid.” The New York Observer called the book “a delicately poignant interplay of desire and memory, and is Mr. Aciman at his greatest.” W.W. Norton published the book April 8, 2013.

Ramona Ausubel’s, NO ONE IS HERE EXECEPT ALL OF US is a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. The award is given by the New York Public Library and honors the works of “dynamic, young, first time-authors” under the age of 35. The winner will be announced on May 20. Riverhead published the book February 2, 2012.