“One Good Thing is a fast-paced, thrilling story of the survival of a Jewish woman and child on the run in Italy amidst the terror of the Nazi occupation.”
“The Undoing of Violet Claybourne is an expertly written, engaging narrative, a journey into that place and time in the 20th century and the psychology of social pressure that is w
The uninhabited Ilas Desertas are desolate islands populated by a few rabbits and endangered monk seals, and they really exist, part of the Portuguese Madeira Archipelago, some miles off the Morocc
“Deborah Dwork has fashioned an inspiring, wide-ranging, and gripping story of brave Americans living perilously among their refugee clients in dangerous wartime Europe and China.”
Whether you have read just one or both parts—or none—of Goethe’s epic poem Faust, this exegesis and commentary by A. N. Wilson will enrich your mind and spirit.
In the preface to his raunchy, revealing, and sometimes disturbing memoir, The Loves of My Life, Edmund White declares that he is now, in his mid-eighties, “at an age when writers are supp
On July 3, 1972, a group of about two dozen free-spirited hippies from Clearwater, Florida, driving to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte, N.C., camped for the night in the mountains of western
