Non-fiction
Official Silence
Eric Laurent
In the summer of 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks delivered its long-awaited report to the US public. Many reviews were written, the book-version of the report became a strong best-s…
The Caged Virgin
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia and grew up in a Muslim family. At the age of 22 she was promised in marriage to a distant nephew. With the help of a friend she defied her family and escaped. Arri…
Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman
Alexandra Lapierre
In 1624, a mysterious Englishman orchestrated the plundering of the relics of the Golden Gate of Constantinople – a marvel of Greco-Roman history. This titanic pillage was the first of many such excav…
Hope and Memory
Tzvetan Todorov
In Hope and Memory Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe’s leading intellectuals, defines totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century and examines the struggle between this system and de…
Inside the Kingdom
Carmen Bin Ladin
On September 11th, Carmen Bin Ladin was driving to her home in Switzerland with one of her three daughters. When she heard the news on the radio that the Twin Towers had been struck she instinctively…
The New World Disorder
Tzvetan Todorov
“Few of the texts dedicated to recent world events have seemed to me as profound or as powerful as this foray into the domain of international relations by one of the most important intellectuals of o…
Escape Over the Himalayas
Maria Blumencron
“It was so hard to walk all the time. I was more afraid of the Chinese than I was of the snow and the wild animals. Together we fought our way over the tall mountains, the steep trails and the deep wa…
Everything That You Shouldn’t Know About Your Child’s Sexuality
Marcel Rufo
Our sex is our greatest defining factor. From the moment gender is discerned in the blurry images of the ultrasound, it can be the source of endless and sometimes extremely traumatic insecurities, com…
Beyond Fear
Guy Corneau
“Invariably, there comes a time in your life when everything goes wrong, when absolutely everything goes wrong.” Guy Corneau’s fascinating exploration into the nature of our relationship with the ‘sel…
The Sleeping Mountain
Alvaro Escobar Molina
In a mountain village of Colombia, a little child is learning about the world by watching his grandmother’s dry and wrinkled hands. He listens to the silences, to the tales of Madre Monte, and throws…