Witty and enigmatic, Vladimir Nabokov’s produced some of the last century’s most celebrated and notorious fiction. Using newly declassified intelligence files and recovered military reports, author Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being an advocate of art for art's sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing real-life history in his works.

For all his importance in Christian theology, we have a surprisingly incomplete historical picture of the Apostle Paul. Yale’s Dale B. Martin looks at him in the social and cultural context of the Greco-Roman world, and imagines what Paul’s biography might look like if we could assemble it.