Jonathan Swift

The author of Gulliver’s Travels was a wit, a ladies’ man, a champion of the oppressed — and a mystery.  

Reading Lessing: Writers Reflect

“No one else does this like her; the pulling apart of what is going on within a human mind in the space of a few seconds, the fearless, truthful portrayal of it all.”  — Writers discuss the legacy of Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing’s...

By the Rivers of the Water

The complex and fascinating biography of pious mid-19th century newlyweds Jane and John Leighton Wilson – American Southerners who thrived as Liberian missionaries, developed anti-slavery views, then returned to find their native Georgia at the height of the...

Police

The tenth encounter of Jo Nesbø’s Oslo cop Harry Hole with the Nordic crime scene finds the wounded detective bed-bound on the edge of death, while friends and co-workers carry the thrilling tale of serial cop assassination to its grim and unforgettable...

David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest cerebral rummaging through the labyrinth of the world weighs the disparity between the Big Guys and the Little Guys, and discloses how the odds are not always in favor of the former.