On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway […]
NW : a Novel
"Endlessly fascinating… remarkable. …The impression of Smith's casual brilliance is what constantly surprises, the way she tosses off insights about parenting and work that you've felt in some nebulous way but never been able to articulate." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
Even Silence Has an End : My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
The Fallen Sky : an Intimate History of Shooting Stars
Kirkus Reviews: Sprawling adventure memoir and natural history of meteorites from Cokinos (English and Creative Writing/Utah State Univ.; Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, 2000). In his quest to understand the passions of the opportunists, innovators and romantics that popular the history of meteorites, the author traverses the globe, […]
The Shadow of the Wind
The Washington Post: ? anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should. ? Michael Dirda
The Gamble : General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008
The New York Times – Michiko Kakutani: ?powerful and illuminating ?Mr. Ricks writes as both an analyst and a reporter with lots of real-time access to the chain of command, and his book's narrative is animated by closely observed descriptions of how the surge worked on the ground, by a savvy knowledge of internal Pentagon […]
The Greatest Story Ever Sold : the Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina
Politics : Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004
Against the Day
Library Journal: Descending in balloons on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the do-gooding young Chums of Chance (part of a worldwide brigade) get help from White City Investigations' Lew Basnight. Lew is soon off battling anarchists in the American West, where bad guys Deuce and Sloat do in Webb Traverse, whose daughter marries Deuce and […]
Revolutionary Characters : What Made the Founders Different
Publisher Weekly Review: Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize?winner Wood suggests that behind America's current romance with the founding fathers is a critique of our own leaders, a desire for such capable and disinterested leadership as was offered by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Provocatively, Wood argues that the very egalitarian democracy Washington and Co. created all […]