Budapest

“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….

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

“An embodiment of a spectacle-obsessed entertainment culture that seems horribly like our own. . . . It delivers the ancient narrative satisfaction of seeing a character deal with the inexplicabilities…

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852

Don’t Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards

Best-selling political humorist P.J. O’Rourke writes the mirthful political theory companion to his classic mirthful political science book, Parliament of Whores….

A Diamond in the Desert

Part history, part memoir, part travel guide, this search for the mysteries behind one of the world’s richest cities is “the best book . . . on the Gulf coast…

United Nations

With four new chapters, this updated edition of United Nations: A History completes the story of the UN’s last sixty-five years, its successes and turbulent past….

Grove at Home: October 11—17

…or belief in the lives of the people who call that apartment home.” Continue reading…   Caravanas Ao Vivo with Chico Buarque Brazil’s Chico Buarque, it seems, can do anything….

The Killing Hills

Acclaimed literary author Chris Offutt now delivers a breakout novel — The Killing Hills, a literary crime novel set in the Kentucky hills in which an Army CID agent on…

The Bureau and the Mole

“A first-rate spy story.” –Entertainment Weekly…

Leisureville

“Engaging . . . [Blechman] confronts the troubling trend toward isolation and escapism.” —Publishers Weekly…