The Bolter by Frances Osborne
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The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
April 1, 2025It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
The Second Book of the Tao
March 31, 2025The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
March 31, 2025Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Whatever — Whatever?
March 30, 2025One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
March 29, 2025For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
March 29, 2025Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
March 28, 2025The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
March 27, 2025Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...




