Bettina Selby Bettina Selby's latest journey by bicycle takes her to the cradle of civilization, where the Tigris and the Euphrates rise. It is the corridor of ancient invasion fought...

Sarah Glidden The award-winning graphic memoir about Israel that offers more questions than answers about identity and politics Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twentysomething who is both vocal...

Peter Matthiessen “You don’t have to be a ‘craniac’ . . . to appreciate [this book] . . . All you really need is a passion for prose as good...

Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed 10,000 miles of the South American wilderness, from the Amazon rain forests to Machu Picchu, high in the Andes, down to Tierra del Fuego and...

Jose Saramago From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own...

Ernest Hemingway Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during...

David Elliot Cohen A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it...

Author: Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project comes a story of taking chances and learning to love again as two people, one mourning her...

Benjamin Orbach On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Pittsburgh native and graduate student Ben Orbach traveled to the Middle East to experience the region first-hand. Despite having...

Ernest Hemingway Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari in Africa, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking...

Paul TherouxPaul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way...

William B HelmreichAn intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a...