An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Richard A. Posner
His analysis of the political crisis surrounding disclosure of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky is the most trenchant and illuminating yet... read more
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx seldom uses violence as an indication of character; it just happens, as it does in old sagas... read more
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
Richard Holmes
He did not live with his wife or children, but with friends who took him in for weeks that turned to long years -- 30 years altogether... read more
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
She resists his appeals to abandon the place; for her, living with danger is the price whites must pay for living in the new South Africa... read more
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
Antonio R. Damasio
She resists his appeals to abandon the place; for her, living with danger is the price whites must pay for living in the new South Africa... read more
The First World War
John Keegan
Keegan emphasizes that while technology had vastly extended the destructive force of armies, ... read more
Headlong: A Novel
Michael Frayn
Martin suspects one is a lost Bruegel and schemes to get it. He fails to tell Kate of his suspicion, which, along with a few flirtations,.. read more
Morgan : American Financier
Jean Strouse
Two of his mistresses and a few of the politicians he constantly tried to bend to his will stand out in richer colors than he... read more
Reading the Holocaust
Inga Clendinnen
Clendinnen, an original and fearless thinker who writes clear, unacademic English, first considers the problematic nature of eyewitness accounts,.. read more
Secrets of the Flesh : A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman
She withheld nothing, but from volume to volume she blithely contradicted herself hundreds of times about details of her life... read more
A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle
Doyle is playing serious games with history, the narrative of the professional historians... read more