John Garrard and Carol Gerrard Born a Russian Jew and an ardent patriot of the Soviet motherland, Vasily Grossman rationalized away the Stalinist horror of his time as he chronicled...

Author: Colin Dexter The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse. Morse switched on the gramophone to 'play', and sought to switch his mind...

Robert Littell In a republication of the author's 1973 first novel, unremarkable American scientist A. J. Lewinter triggers a series of high-stakes events when, during an academic conference in Tokyo,...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle of Dante’s Hell—where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity—stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions...

Masha Gessen Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardsWinner of the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book AwardNamed a Best...

Peter Hopkirk The "Great Game" was an imperial, political, diplomatic, and military enterprise in which intrepid individuals played for high stakes in a struggle that stretched from the Causasus in...

Mikhail Bulgakov A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man....

Chingiz Aitmatov Avidiy Kallistratov is a religious idealist with a mission. In his quest to get rid of evil, he begins by investigating marijuana production and witnesses abuse, alcoholism and...

Isaac Deutscher The Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political...

Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined...

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...

Edited by Nathan Lopes Cardozo The Tent of Avraham is an anthology of essays on a variety of Jewish topics of academic, personal, and spiritual nature. Contributors include Jewish thinkers,...