The Butterfly Mosque

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing…

Exploding the Phone

A riveting history of the telephone hackers of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s….

Home Schooling

“[An] elegant collection . . . Windley’s writing is calm and at times hypnotic, and her prose rhythms paint pictures of their own; she knows how to create the restful…

Worm: the First Digital World War, by Mark Bowden

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and…

Grove at Home: August 9—15

…The Common. Read the full post with Cree’s song-by-song commentary…   John Freeman on the park, The Park, and the bookstore How does John Freeman do it? A tireless writer,…

Voltaire in Exile

“Davidson . . . has taken on the story of the last Voltaire. . . . In 1753, at the beginning of Davidson’s story, Voltaire was, in contemporary terms, like…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

“[A] remarkable book. . . . Oe is a supremely gifted writer (and fortunate in having found Nathan as a translator.)” –Ivan Gold, The Washington Post…

Magnum

‘miller deftly conveys the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . . a cracking good story.” –Sarah Coleman,…

The Long Emergency

“[A] popular blueprint for surviving the end of oil.” –Paul Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review…