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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
by Patricia Highsmith“While best known as a writer of thrillers, Highsmith is concerned with crafting stories to evoke the human comedy. Her wry portrayals of human folly sometimes lack sympathy, but Highsmith…
Night Work
by Thomas Glavinic“[An] extraordinary apocalyptic novel . . . Glavinic creates a more subtle if no less nightmarish mood than such similar books as The Day of the Triffids and I Am…
The Breaking of Nations
by Robert Cooper“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…
The Giant of the French Revolution
by David LawdayThe Giant of the French Revolution tells the story of George-Jacques Danton—visionary leader and tragic hero—in a work The Economist called “a gripping story, beautifully told.”…
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,…
Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon“Leon is probably the best mystery writer you’ve never heard of. . . . She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual…
The Long Emergency
by James Howard Kunstler“[A] popular blueprint for surviving the end of oil.” –Paul Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review…
Moloch
by Henry Miller“A work of extraordinary political consciousness, predicated upon the longing savagely to corrode, or better yet, explode the foundations of a world of wage slavery and commercial empires. . ….
Last Night in Nuuk
by Niviaq KorneliussenThe 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…