Month: October 2022

A memoir of the writer’s early years in rough Massachusetts neighborhoods. The young Dubus’ father leaves the family for a younger woman, his mother struggles to care for three children, and Andre spends a lot of time on the streets being bullied and beaten. There’s …

This book, published in English by the historians at the state museum in Auschwitz (Oswecim, Poland), would make a perfect gift for your Uncle Dave, the Holocaust denier. This volume brings together the writings of three perpetrators of genocide: the first commandant of Auschwitz, a …

It’s 2008. The U.S. newspapers that haven’t gone broke are clinging to the rim of the toilet bowl. One of them, the struggling Philadelphia Daily News, is more interested in tabloid fluff than in hard-hitting investigations. Despite this, two honest, old-school journalists risk their careers …

This classic novel tells the story of Rubashov, a world-weary communist revolutionary who has been imprisoned by leaders of the very system for which he fought. Apart from being a fascinating account of Soviet show-trial tactics, Rubashov’s story is good for the mind. It highlights …