The Devil Tree

“Savage . . . [Whalen is] a foolproof, timeless American character. . . . Each horrid, magical episode . . . releases, between the lines, unspoken words about the nature…

Grove at Home: September 27—October 3

…I might have felt a bit less alone. BM: Favorite book to give as a gift? CLF: Jonathan Miles’s great early novel, Dear American Airlines. It has the virtue of…

LAbyrinth

“You don’t have to know anything about any of this to love this book.” —Carolyn See, The Washington Post…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

The Neocon Reader

“I find both the substance and the rhetoric of many of the articles here inspiring. But even those who don’t might admire the imagination, forthrightness and clarity of most of…

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…

Brandenburg Gate

“Beautifully researched and rich in incident and intriguing characters, this tour de force on a par with John le Carré has as many twists as a mountain road but is…

House Blood

“Another page-turner brimming with authentic Washington, D.C., detail and distinctive, engaging characters.” —Library Journal…

There’s a Riot Going On

“Fascinating . . . There’s a Riot Going On [is] a step toward drawing a distinction between the fanatic and the visionary, the image and the substance.”—Zachary Lazar, Los Angeles…

Family Meals

The follow-up to his celebrated memoir, Living in a Foreign Language, Michael Tucker’s Family Meals is a heartwarming book about family and the challenges of caring for an aging parent,…