Non-fiction
A Moral Treatise On Getting Over Bullsh*t (and Living a Better Life)
Fabrice Midal
Fight or flight. Giving it your all or giving it all up. When it seems your only choices in life are defiance or surrender, Fabrice Midal offers a third and more meaningful path: calmly and creatively…
Prey
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In an incisive and timely new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that immigration and Islam are leading to a significant setback in women’s rights – not just for immigrants, but for all women in liberal dem…
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
Nancy Campbell
A vivid and perceptive book, The Library of Ice is about one of our planet’s defining resources. It combines scientific and cultural history with memoir. From the world’s northernmost museum in Greenl…
The White Darkness
David Grann
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackl…
Janet Flanner
Michèle Fitoussi
Janet Flanner’s story is intimately linked to that of the The New Yorker for which she was the Paris correspondent for over half a century. A feminist, lesbian, pacifist, seductress and leading figure…
The Billionaire Raj
James Crabtree
The Billionaire Raj tells the story of the twenty-five years since India opened its economy to the world. It argues that like America before it, it is mid-way through a battle to define how its societ…
The French Revolution
Stephen Clarke
In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. People wanted democratic reform within a monarchy, and initially that was what they got. But as power-hungry populists us…
Giving
Alexandre Mars
Alexandre Mars, one of the New York Observer’s top 20 philanthropists under 40, takes us to the heart of a new revolution: the revolution of sharing. Alexandre Mars is not a typical entrepreneur. His…
Same Player Shoots Again
Antoine Audouard
Same Player Shoots Again is the unusual memoir of a stroke survivor who never lost his sense of humor or observation – even while in a coma. Novelist Antoine Audouard recalls the most telling moments…
The Hidden Powers of the Liver
Gabriel Perlemuter
What’s large, reddish-brown, and absolutely necessary for human survival? The liver. It is the only organ to fully regenerate, and thus the most resilient player in the human body. A healthy liver is…