Wagons West

“Fascinating. . . . McLynn, an Englishman, is new to the West, but he turns this seeming liability into a strength. . . . McLynn does a fine job, too,…

Read dangerously this Banned Books Week (and Beyond)!

…  The Accusation by Bandi (translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith) This collection of searing and heart-wrenching stories by an anonymous North Korean writer, who is still living in…

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…

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…

Black Hawk Down

“Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. . . . The individual stories are woven together in such a compelling and expert fashion, the…

Ninety Degrees North

“[A] superb history of the conquest of the North Pole. . . . In Fleming’s vivid prose, their suffering becomes a fable of men driven to extremes by the lust…

Authors to Read During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

…Nam-Joo. “A novel, told through relationships, about navigating life as a young gay man in Korea . . . The novel skips freely around in time, lending it a sense…

Vietnam Plays Vol 2 [Streamers]

Anzio

“Highly readable, and of much interest to students of WWII history.” —Kirkus Reviews…

Daughter of the River

“This remarkable account of a childhood spent on the banks of the Yangtze River . . . explores the depths of personal and civil repression with an almost brutal grace.”…