Worm: the First Digital World War, by Mark Bowden

The fascinating story of the Conficker computer worm and the cyber security elites who have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers to find its creators and…

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…

Snowblind

“A flat-out ballbuster. It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. . . . Sabbag is a whip-song writer.” —Hunter S. Thompson…

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…

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…

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…

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…