Arafat’s War

“The savage battle between Palestinians and Israelis is often presented as if it were historically predestined.  But in this eye-opening and exhaustively researched book, Karsh shows us that it is…

Grove at Home: December 6-12

…latest, A Cry from the Far Middle, is the perfect gift for your favorite free-thinker. Bringing his trademark (and occasionally cantankerous) wit to bear on the scandals and conundrums of…

Books to Read During Women in Translation Month

…enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited…

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

“Shakur produces a visceral and strikingly real portrayal of gang life in Los Angeles, replete with sudden and inexplicable violence, revenge, betrayal, ostentatious living, racism, the strong arm of law…

Levi’s Children

The Beholder’s Eye

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

Seven Mile Beach

“Unusual, fast, light, short, suspenseful, meaningful, and filled with an immigrant’s pointed observations about identity and the possibility of changing it. . . . [With an] appealing stench of paranoia…

Matterhorn

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

The Forgers

When a suspected forger is brutally murdered, his sister’s lover—himself a notorious counterfeiter of the handwriting of literary greats—is caught in a web of truth and lies that puts his…