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P. J. O’Rourke
…foreign affairs desk chief for Rolling Stone where he reported from far-flung places. Later he wrote for a number of publications, including The Atlantic, the Daily Beast, the Wall Street…
The Big One
by David Kinney“The Big One is a rollicking true story of a grand American obsession. You don’t have to be a fisherman to relish David Kinney’s marvelous account of the annual striper…
The Rebels’ Hour
by Lieve Joris“[The Rebels’ Hour] achieves intense intimacy with a few characters to represent a much more immense historical experience. . . . It is as deeply reported and directly observed as…
Tom Paine
by John Keane“A good introduction to a complex historical character. . . . Provide[s] an engaging perspective on England, America, and France in the tumultuous years of the late eighteenth century.” –Pauline…
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir“Impeccable research . . . Entertaining . . . The story of England’s second Tudor monarch and his rather sordid marital life has been told often. But never has it…
Ninety Degrees North
by Fergus Fleming“[A] superb history of the conquest of the North Pole. . . . In Fleming’s vivid prose, their suffering becomes a fable of men driven to extremes by the lust…
They’re Cows, We’re Pigs
by Carmen Boullosa“A word-drunk picaresque novel . . . Boullosa’s vivid and visceral descriptions provide hallucinatory images of the pirates’ raping and pillaging, their battles in the jungle and at sea.” –The…
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson“A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into the narrative, Winterson allows herself the…
Sexing the Cherry
by Jeanette Winterson“Sexing the Cherry is a dangerous jewel . . . a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera and told with the grace of…
