In The Din In the Head, Cynthia Ozick, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Quarrel & Quandry in 2001, offers a new collection of essays on the joys of great literature, above all, the novel. One of America’s foremost writers, Ozick’s last novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post.

Called “a prodigious talent” by Janet Maslin in the New York Times, Nicole Krauss is the author of the national bestseller The History of Love, and a previous novel, Man Walks Into A Room. Published in 2005, The History of Love was an NBC “Today Show” Book Club Selection and a #1 Booksense pick.