FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Samanta Schweblin’s Good and Evil and Other Stories

Good and Evil and Other Stories is a haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist.   Welcome to the Club I jump into the water from the end of the pier and sink down, holding my nose. After the

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FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Annie Jacobsen’s Biological War

From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare.   Chapter One Recombinant DNA One day in 1971, inside a laboratory at Stanford University in California, an American biochemist named Paul Berg conducted an experiment that would forever change the

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