The Golden Gate is a highly entertaining page-turner that falls neatly into, but in some ways subverts, the classic murder mystery noir detective genre. As Detective Al Sullivan tries to solve the ...
Read Review1940 U.S. Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua begins with the murder of Walter Wilkinson, who is a fictionalized version of Wendell Willkie, a Republican presidential candidate who lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940...
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Diesel ought to be a household name. Like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Nikola Tesla, Diesel (born in 1858) invented something that changed the world: the internal combustion engine, ...
Read ReviewSharks in the Water: German U-boats in World War I
Douglas Brunt’s The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel tells the story of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the internal combustion engine. After the Industrial Revolution, industry had become...
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As a child growing up on the Pembrokeshire Coast in Wales, Hannah Stowe always loved the sea, learning to swim at the same time she learned to walk and falling asleep to the rhythm of a nearby ...
Read ReviewMuch of biologist Hannah Stowe's memoir, Move Like Water, records her experiences on sailing vessels researching cetaceans – an entirely aquatic group of mammals that includes whales, dolphins ...
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London-based author and theater director Susie Boyt has written seven novels and the PEN Ackerley Prize-shortlisted memoir My Judy Garland Life. Her name might not be familiar to American readers, ...
Read ReviewSusie Boyt's Loved and Missed was first published in the United Kingdom in 2021; two years later, it has been published in the United States by New York Review Books, which specializes in both ...
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In early 19th-century France, Aglaé's father Michel Adanson dies of old age. Sitting at his bedside, she hears his last word—a name she doesn't know. While going through his ...
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In David Diop's novel Beyond the Door of No Return, French botanist Michel Adanson journeys across 18th-century Senegal to discover the fate of a woman who was kidnapped. At the time of the story,...
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We've all seen it—a dead animal carcass on the side of the road, clearly mowed down by a car. Many of us have been the ones responsible for such carnage, and we've come away from those ...
Read ReviewMonarch Butterfly Habitat Restoration on Roadsides and Beyond
As Ben Goldfarb notes in Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, we're in the midst of an insect apocalypse. It's largely agreed now that our planet is experiencing a ...
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Mercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra
A timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice set in Mussolini's Italy and 1940s Los Angeles.
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