McCarten’s stylish prose propels forward a narrative of one of the most enthralling stories of modern science. “You don’t make money from improving the world, you make it from its destruction,” Edison says to a young inventor.... Read More

This plainspoken and quirky collection is imbued with a wit as comfortable as an evening with Garrison Keillor. Reading Patrick Irelan’s collection of fifteen short stories is like sitting in the town diner listening to a local tell... Read More

“Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.” -Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov’s belief couldn’t be more evident than in Christina Ezrahi’s Swans of the Kremlin: Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia, a fascinating study... Read More

“Why it says to the world what the world wants to hear: that nothing goes better with depravity than vanity,” claims the narrator of "Persecution". Like the author’s debut, The Worst Intentions, the vanity of the Italian... Read More