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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused
by Howard Goldblatt“In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. ….
One Soldier’s War
by Arkady Babchenko“By turns horrific, sad, and funny, [One Soldier’s War] fills a big gap by providing us with the first-person experiences of an articulate Russian soldier. . . . Evokes Catch-22…
Happiness
by Darrin M. McMahon“From Herodotus and Aristotle through Locke and Rousseau down to Darwin, Marx and Freud. The musings on happiness of these and dozens of lesser thinkers are lucidly presented in fine,…
The Earth Shall Weep
by James Wilson“A sweeping, well-written, long-view history of American Indian societies . . . a trustworthy telling of a sad epic of misunderstanding, mayhem, and massacre.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred)…
The Disappeared
by Kim Echlin“The familiar tale of star-crossed lovers is revisited with gripping immediacy and compelling freshness in Kim Echlin’s The Disappeared. Writing with sensuality, yearning, and in a voice readers will not…
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
by Masood FarivarFrom an Afghan with deep roots in his nation’s history, a courageous and evocative memoir of fleeing the Soviet invasion, coming of age in a madrassa in Pakistan, fighting the…
A Q&A with Anton Hur, translator of Love in the Big City
…Love in the Big City has a “Western sensibility in the language,” and in the Korean language edition, Park uses English loan words in place of Korean words (i.e. screen,…
Bohemian Paris
by Dan Franck“[Bohemian Paris] will captivate both serious and casual readers. . . . Marvelous and informative.” –Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal (starred review)…
War Reporting for Cowards
by Chris Ayres“We find ourselves in good hands throughout the journey. . . . Once in a while his descriptions actually take on a terse Hemingwayesque brilliance. . . . Ayres happened…
Thunder Run
by David Zucchino“Zucchino paints a vivid picture of the battle by stiching together the narratives of soldiers, officers, generals and Iraqis whom he interviewed during and after the war. . . ….
