Poems by Ron Rash
★★★★★ Before Ron Rash was known as a writer of dazzling novels, he was a very highly regarded poet whose work appeared in journals such as the New England Review, Sewanee Review, Carolina Quarterly,...
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The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World by William Egginton
★★★★☆ The publication of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha in 1605 may have marked the greatest and most far-reaching literary event of all time. If you could read you bought a...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah
★★★★☆ With the Zika virus dominating the news, there is no more apropos time for Sonia Shah’s Pandemic to appear. Unfortunately, Zika is just the latest in a lengthening list of epidemics and pandemics...
The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel
★★★★☆ American musicals pervade our lives whether we attend them in a theatre or not. Songs have transitioned from their places in their shows into our daily life, often without our knowing their original...
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
★★★★☆ “This is the story of the life and daydreams of Mevlut Karataş, a seller of boza and yogurt.” Thus begins A Strangeness in My Mind, the story of a 12-year old boy who...
The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
★★★★★ The one Great Inevitability is that everyone dies. The end result is the same, but the manner in which one is allowed to take leave of this corporeal world makes all the difference...
The Boiling River by Andrés Ruzo
★★★★☆ At its mouth the Amazon River is a gargantuan, powerful river, sending a plume of fresh water up to 120 miles wide more than 250 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Leave the mouth...
Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion by Adina Arvatu and Andrew Aberdein
★★★★☆ If you love language and how it works this is the book for you. You may not become a better writer or speaker for having read it, but you will recognize and better...
Schools on Trial by Nikhil Goyal
★★★☆☆ There was a time when people said that schools on the whole were “good.” Schools were supported by parents and multiple generations grew up in the same schools where teachers had already taught...
