Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie “A must-read for fans of presidential history.” — USA TODAY“Splendid…a gripping, authoritative campaign history.” — The Boston Globe“Terrific…a tougher and more balanced account of the...

Niki Savva Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of warnings, but even she lasted longer than Abbott.Abbott ignored all...

David Goodhart Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the...

Yitschak Ben Had Who are the Palestinians, and what do they want? Which terrorist groups are based in the Middle East? Who harbors them? Does Israel have legitimate rights to...

EH Carr E.H. Carr is the acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929 , he provides the student and general reader...

JM Coetzee LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA New York Magazine Best Book of the YearFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of...

Thomas Pakenham In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10...

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David MametDavid Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media...

Sue MillerMeri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife...

Mark Lilla A sense of nostalgia, of not feeling at home in the present, and an attempt to recover a lost philosophical or religious tradition characterize the twentieth-century intellectuals whose...

Naomi KleinImpassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with...