The Friday Afternoon Club

An affecting, poignant recollection of life among the Hollywood literati.

I Don’t Want to Go Home

By Nick Corasaniti

I Don’t Want to Go Home

Greetings from Asbury Park!

The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952-1971

A stellar assessment of a volatile period in Mideast history.

On Book Banning

By Ira Wells

On Book Banning

A slim, surprisingly reassuring treatise about censoring the shelves.

That’s All I Know: A Novel

By Elisa Levi; translated by Christina MacSweeney

That’s All I Know: A Novel

A delightful tale of a sleepy Spanish town watching the world pass it by.

Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos

An engrossing look at Yevgeny Prighozin’s soldiers-for-hire.

Hidden Heroes: Anthology of North Korean Fiction

Edited and translated by Immanuel Kim and Benoit Berthelier

Hidden Heroes: Anthology of North Korean Fiction

These nine tales offer a limited glimpse into an inscrutable land.

Orwell’s Ghosts

By Laura Beers

Orwell’s Ghosts

What an astute author from the past might say about our murky present.