Lawrence in Arabia

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews

Far from the European trenches of WWI, the Arab Revolt against Turkey was a clandestine operation that gained little attention, but achieved far-reaching results. In this revelatory history, Scott Anderson profiles the four men responsible for overhauling the old...

Very Recent History

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews

An archive of disaffected college grads grappling with careers, dating and sex in post-millennial New York City, Choire Sicha’s debut is a fact and fiction hybrid of wry satire and profound commentary.

Dana Before the Mast

by | Aug 14, 2013 | Book Reviews

August 14: On this day in 1834 Richard Dana boarded the merchant brig Pilgrim for the Boston–California return voyage that would become Two Years Before the Mast. Dana had just turned nineteen when he decided to escape Harvard and his comfortable, upper-class...