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The Deserter’s Tale

by Joshua Key

“Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . Key’s clear voice rings out . . . with anguish and a frankness that invests the…

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

by P. J. O'Rourke

“From the fictionalized accounts of his career as a hard-drinking hippie to the Benchley-in-the-age-of-macho lampoon of fly fishing, Mr. o’Rourke shows an incorrigible comic gift and an eye for detail…

The Answer Is Never

by Jocko Weyland

‘sharp and winning. . . . [Weyland] is at his best when he writes about what skating gave him as a kid–what it’s like to awaken to a sense of…

The American Home Front: 1941-1942

by Alistair Cooke

“Revealing portrait. . . . A vivid, endlessly interesting view of the home front.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Budapest

by Chico Buarque

“In an age of borders, Chico Buarque’s masterpiece Budapest dissolves frontiers, creating an odd new world, where everything is being constantly reborn: words, writing, language, loss, and, above all, love….

Craig Nova

From the Author, on Trombone: If I had to describe myself as a writer, I’d say that I get the biggest thrill out of setting up situations in which characters…

Napoleon’s Exile

by Patrick Rambaud

“Enfeebled, sick, dispirited, abandoned, the ruler only becomes more fascinating. The epoch is no more, but the intimate Napoleon replaces it. No hagiography or biography, we discover here a man—simple,…

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

by Kiran Desai

“A finely tuned fable that attests to the author’s pitch-perfect ear. . . . The author delineates [the characters] with such with and bemused affection that they insinuate themselves insidiously…

Last Night in Nuuk

by Niviaq Korneliussen

The highly acclaimed debut from an author profiled by the New Yorker as her country’s “unlikely literary star,” Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring…

P. J. O’Rourke

P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022) was an author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores…