A Splendid Exchange

“[An] entertaining and greatly enlightening book . . . Bernstein is a fine writer and knows how to tell a great story well. . . . He never loses sight…

Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

“A better case can be made for the claim that Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man actually affected history than for other books so far published in the series, and Christopher…

Tokyo Cancelled

“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously primitive about the function of story…

Trigger Point

“In the manner of an epic Tom Clancy blockbuster, Glass’s . . . interconnected worlds of finance and politics exist in three (if not four) dimensions. He makes market manipulation…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Spirit of Zen

“Alan Watts is the brain and Buddha of American Zen.” –The Nation…

The Good Parents

“Populated with an astonishing number of stories ranging through three generations of an Australian family. Presented with economy and nimble interleaving, they pivot around a central mystery. . . ….

The Heritage of the Bhikku

From the best-selling author of What the Buddha Taught, the fascinating story of the Buddhist monks’ life of service….

Last Night in Nuuk

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…

Naked at Lunch

From naked grocery shopping to the Big Nude Boat, a comic novelist turned narrative journalist lays bare the world of the nudist.