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Al-Jazeera

by Hugh Miles

“A detailed, absorbing look at the organization, the world it covers and the international media. . . . In describing Al Jazeera’s rise, Miles illuminates the shaky balance the channel…

The Breaking of Nations

by Robert Cooper

“Essentially an attempt to bridge the ideological divide between hard and soft power. Both, he suggests in this short, elegant collection of essays, are necessary in today’s messy world.” –The…

Much Depends On Dinner

by Margaret Visser

…writer, and these chapters combine a wealth of unusual information with extreme readability. . . . In short, Visser whetted my appetite, and I am hungry for more.” —USA Today

Nine Plays of the Modern Theatre

by Harold Clurman

“The nine plays included in this volume are not only modern by date, 1944-1975, but in their dramatization . . . . Though each may differ from the others in…

Grove at Home: January 17-23

…Mirren and McCann’s splendid performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l0RUKe98uU   Roxane Gay on reproductive freedom Today marks the 48th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s historic decision in Roe v. Wade, which established…

Escape Velocity

by Mark Dery

“A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today’s computer savvy avant-garde . . . this book is your ideal guide to the cultural complexities of the computer…

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

by Robert Coover

“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…

A House Unlocked

by Penelope Lively

“In this elegiac yet resolutely unsentimental book, the house becomes a Rosetta stone for the author’s familial memories and an unwitting index of social change. . . . A House…

How I Became a Famous Novelist

by Steve Hely

“If this book doesn’t make you laugh, you may need a new funny bone.” —Kyle Smith, People (4 stars)…

Repetition

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary–not to mention witty–as that of any novelist working today. . . . Objects play as dramatic a role in Repetition as do characters….