The Lost German Slave Girl

“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…

Vietnam Plays Vol 1 [Basic Training]

Stripper Lessons

“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll himself, the change is slow, timid,…

Remembering P. J. O’Rourke

…Foreign Affairs Desk Chief for Rolling Stone, a position that allowed him to expose the hypocrisies of world politics from the Persian Gulf to the Philippines. O’Rourke was also a…

Grove at Home: May 30-June 5

…the Chinese Exclusion Act, the internment of Japanese Americans, the colonization of the Philippines, the annexation of Hawaii, the often forgotten presence of Korean and Indian immigrants in the early…

Magnum

‘miller deftly conveys the excitement of being a photojournalist at a time when world events were unfolding at a furious pace . . . a cracking good story.” –Sarah Coleman,…

The China Dream

“An entertaining, if cautionary, tale of Western business woes in China, stretching back seven hundred years and including, naturally, the woes of recent years.” —Peter Wonacott, The Wall Street Journal…

Charlie Wilson’s War

“Americans often ask: ‘Where have all the heroes gone?’ Well a lot of them come roaring through in this tour de force of reporting and writing. Tom Clancy’s fiction pales…

Tokyo Cancelled

“[This] brilliantly conceived and jauntily delivered first novel . . . harks back to Boccaccio and Chaucer. . . . There is something marvelously primitive about the function of story…

Bohemian Paris

“[Bohemian Paris] will captivate both serious and casual readers. . . . Marvelous and informative.” –Carol J. Binkowski, Library Journal (starred review)…