A user's manual for book reviewers that includes honesty and ethics as among the reviewer's most important tools.

A fictional journey of self-discovery takes the reader inside the origins of modern Middle East.

Did some of the leading lights of the American revolution have revolutionary views of religion?

A reissue of a classic post-nuclear apocalypse tale also shines light on the Cold War age in which it was written.

Documentary, family and oral history create a thorough and meaningful exploration of individual and family life in Stalin's Russia.

Was America's response to 9/11 to seek refuge in a longstanding fantasy of "manly men" rescuing the innocent and helpless female?

A work that has been called Argentina's Catch-22 blends the mundane and the horrible and reality and surrealism.

A collection of 21 works of "creative nonfiction" explores what it's like to be blue in a red state and whether those colors even matter.

Tahar Djaout's seemingly prescient tale of a radical Islamist state is a cautionary story that is not limited to Muslim fundamentalism.

Journalist Daniel Brook argues that government policy has driven college graduates from public service work to corporate America to survive. economically.