The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
July 25, 2026The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
July 25, 2026Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 24, 2026It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
The Second Book of the Tao
July 24, 2026The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
July 24, 2026This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
July 23, 2026For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
Whatever — Whatever?
July 23, 2026One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 22, 2026Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...




