🧠Because truth is often stranger—and funnier—than fiction.
Memoirs, essays, and deep dives into everything from psychology to platypuses. Smart reads for curious minds.
True stories of crime in Miami by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face.  Set against the neon backdrop of the South Florida city where Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan covered the police beat for nearly two decades, this memoir...
From The New Yorker’s book critic, “one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection” (Angela M. Giles, Los Angeles Review of Books).Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The...
From the New York Times–bestselling author, the chilling true story of one woman who escaped the deadly hold of the killer she loved and married.All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John, was that he was a widower, he lavished her with gifts, and he...
In this “true story that reads like a novel,” the #1 New York Times–bestselling author reveals the facts behind a notorious Southern murder case (Library Journal).  When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his forty-six-year-old fiancée,...
“For the expert investigation of the human will to believe, we recommend The Encyclopedia of Superstitions.”—The New York Times Why is it said that breaking a mirror or walking under ladders will bring bad luck and misfortunate? Ever wonder why so many people throw...
As seen on Investigation Discovery: the story of killer husband and father Robert Peernock from the New York Times–bestselling author of Impossible Odds.  Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life. Working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and...
“A wonderfully whimsical yet instructional view of Greco-Roman history.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only...
A collection of essays about unacknowledged genres and curiosities of literature.“This exuberant book is a cornucopia for bookworms.” —The Sunday Times (UK)Dedications, titles, epigraphs, footnotes, prefaces, afterwords, indexes, these and other “invisible” literary...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword “A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial...
A Murder. A Scandal. A Fight for Survival.Before dawn on September 13, 1920, a brutal murder shatters the quiet of the Pulchalski farmhouse in Southington, Ohio. Twelve-year-old Stanley is sent racing down a dusty country road, his mother’s desperate plea ringing in...