Kate AdieKate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle...

Lucy EdgeLucy Edge tells the story of a quest for life's deeper meaning through the yoga schools, ashrams and villages of India.After a decade spent working and drinking too much...

Joseph Heller   Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it...

Anna FunderIn 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can...

Alexandra FullerAlexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was...

Matti Friedman“Matti Friedman’s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr’s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative,...

XinranWhen Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long...

Pico IyerThe author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From...

Jack SaccoThe True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liveration of DachauIn this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale...

Brandon BaysThis is a book about Freedom All of us sense that deep inside lies huge potential. We long to experience it, yet something holds us back. We long to...

Tirzah Firestone"Candid, intense, and compulsively readable, this is spiritual biography at its very best."--Letty Cottin PogrebinAt age seventeen, Tirzah Firestone left the oppressive home of her Orthodox Jewish parents and...

Frank EphraimWith the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese...