Father’s Day Reads: The Technologist

…to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and…

Complicated Shadows

“Sensitive, impeccably researched account of his journey from pub-rock mediocrity in Flip City to New Wave megastardom with the Attractions and beyond.” –Time Out (London)…

Eight Days at Yalta

Meticulously researched and vividly written, published on the 75th anniversary of the historic Yalta conference, Eight Days at Yalta is the definitive new history of the meeting that reordered the…

Zen Poetry

The Spirit of Zen

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

Spirit House

“Moore has the sharpest eyes and most discerning mind on these shores, his being an expat notwithstanding. Indeed, a good many locals are unaware of the levels and degrees of…

The Silent Cry

Now back in print, a modern classic by Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe, praised as “a major feat of the imagination.” —Times (UK)…

Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!

“Rouse Up is a series of linked, meditative stories that examine Nobel laureate Oe’s changing relationship with his adolescent brain-damaged son through the prism of [William] Blake’s poetry . ….

On the Missionary Trail

“On the Missionary Trail . . . illuminate[s] the struggles of the nineteenth-century men and women who risked–and often lost–their lives to bring Christianity and civilization to the remotest corners…

The Long Night of White Chickens

“A remarkable novel. . . . Accruing vivid new details at every turn, Roger’s account gives the reader the most immediate possible sense of a country and its people, the…