Decock is an intellectual up to the task of challenging some of our most cherished notions of democracy. Yves Decock’s compelling disquisition, "Liberal Quicksand", will be a hard pill to swallow for lovers of liberal democracy. But in... Read More

"The Eight-Day Clock" has a sharp critical edge that sets it apart from any genre exercise and puts it into the realm of literary fiction and vital political satire. Dale Swanson’s new novel is a subversive noir tale set in the... Read More

The novel is in turn thrilling and thought-provoking, and has the makings of a powerful sci-fi franchise. In the year 2143, the human struggle between individual freedom and overarching social structures still exists on Earth—at least... Read More

Historian Robert M. Dienesch’s latest work is an intriguing and incisive study of the transformational period in American history when the federal government retooled defense spending and foreign policy toward communist containment and... Read More

The new English translation of Oliver Wieviorka’s "The French Resistance" is a hefty, commodious volume allowing for the full breadth of the author’s sophisticated scholarship. This is not a one-sided account of the French resistance... Read More

This unsparing, unflinching, and darkly poetic account of the 1909 massacre of 30,000 Armenians in Adana, Turkey, makes Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness seem like leisure reading. That’s because Zabel Yessayan, one of the most... Read More

In the introduction to this new English translation of "In the Land of a Thousand Gods", ancient history expert Christian Marek teases that because of its largeness and cultural diversity, ancient Asia Minor could never be... Read More

With the character depth and literary finesse of a novelist, bestselling historian and travel writer John Man portrays the life of renowned twelfth-century sultan Saladin, who united Muslim kingdoms against Christian crusaders to retake... Read More