Jens Mühling’s colorful travelogue "Troubled Water" captures the history and cultures on the shores of the Black Sea. The Black Sea has been a crossroads for warring and... Read More

Interwoven with the stark realism of the novel are hints of a fairy tale. Simultaneously bleak and hopeful, Michael Köhlmeier’s "Yiza" traverses the expansive landscape of... Read More

This affecting, dimensional work centers on the power gained by losing oneself in the mythology of others. Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill: Englishmen, twentieth-century... Read More

This mesmerizing novel provides an incisive look at how the Bosnian War marked its survivors. In Cornflower Blue: A Case for Milena Lukin, Christian Schünemann and Jelena... Read More

This is a thorough and in-depth view of the last emperor of Ethiopia, told from the unique vantage point of his great-nephew. The full set of titles of the man known as the last... Read More

In July of 1923, Franz Kafka, forty years old, is ill with tuberculosis and convalescing near the Baltic Sea, when he meets twenty-five-year-old Dora Diamant, a remarkable woman... Read More

At the 1919-1923 Peace Conference in Paris, tempers were running high. One diplomat complained, “Nobody knows anything because everything is happening behind the scenes.”... Read More