A richly textured and highly readable exploration of the inner Roosevelt, presented with analytical acuity and flashes of originality.

A robust musical about struggling Latino immigrants in New York City today that celebrates the virtues of sacrifice, family solidarity and gritty optimism.

A jarring comedy that examines family and romantic relationships with a lacerating wit while eschewing easy answers and pat resolutions.

A heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar.

An authoritative, deeply researched book that achieves an extraordinary balance in weighing two mighty protagonists against each other.

A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.

A book of lyric poems that evinces compassion for the human condition as it explores the constraints that limit the possibility of people changing the course of their lives.

For its sensitive and moving examination of how females in the developing world are often oppressed from birth to death, a reporting project marked by indelible portraits of women and girls and enhanced by multimedia presentations.

For her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa who are often traded like animals by adults who prize their labor.

An elegantly written account of a brief period in American history that left a profoundly altered national landscape.