Agnes Scott College Library

Carol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.

Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.

A history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.

A love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.

In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.