Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar You may have seen the TV show of the same name, but this Dynasty is
Memories of a Marriage is an intriguing and fascinating, slightly salacious, definitely scandalous, somewhat meandering, but never boring, none too gentle reminiscence of past relationships,
Christopher Morley’s classic Parnassus on Wheels is as good a read today as when first published in 1917. And in some ways, given today’s book world,
I think Michael Ennis is in love with Italy. Not the Italy of today’s grand sweep from the Alps down to the tip of the
Colson Whitehead, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and a keen observer of the American way of life, has written a story
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: THE OSAGE MURDERS AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI Growing up in Kansas, I visited our relatives in northern Oklahoma.
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center Ray Monk previously wrote an excellent biography of Bertrand Russell in which he helped me, at least temporarily,
AMERICAN HEIRESS: THE WILD SAGA OF THE KIDNAPPING, CRIMES AND TRIAL OF PATTI HEARST A lawyer by training and a writer by profession, Jeffrey Toobin
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Cora, born a slave, abandoned by her mother, beaten and whipped repeatedly, gang-raped at thirteen, nevertheless acts with courage and integrity in
Award winning English novelist Jim Crace has written in Harvest a novel whose story is eerily familiar, although it takes place in a faraway English
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill Winston Spencer Churchill (WSC) was in most respects a
If you have never read Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder is as fine a place to start as any. On the other hand, if you are
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote
THE GENERAL vs. THE PRESIDENT: MACARTHUR AND TRUMAN AT THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR “I should have fired him [General MacArthur] six months sooner.” If
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East “We [the young men who won the war]
Ignorance is not bliss after all. You won’t see Band-Aids the same way after reading Apex Hides the Hurt. Apex tells the story of the
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