Shanghai Diary
Shanghai Diary by Ursula Bacon For those who wanted out of Nazi Germany in the Spring of 1939, the options were limited, dangerous, and expensive. The only country who had […]
Save Me the Plums
Save Me the Plums, My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl I hate to cook, but I would gladly have worked at Gourmet magazine under the editorial leadership of Ruth Reichl. […]
Rogues’ Gallery
Rogues’ Gallery by Michael Gross American museums are peculiar institutions. Unlike their counterparts in Europe which are owned by the government or royalty, American museums were founded and funded by […]
River of the Gods
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard Having read Alan Moorehead’s best-selling books, The Blue Nile and […]
Red Notice
Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder Bill Browder, a mild-mannered financier working in Russia, gets on the wrong […]
Midnight’s Furies
Midnight’s Furies, The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari Midnight’s Furies is a grim account of the final year of the British Raj and the birth of an […]
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown If you are a fan of The Crown and enjoy Royal gossip, I recommend Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, which for lack […]
Manhunt
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the State Box at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C, and […]
Lady in Waiting
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Anne Glenconner had an idyllic childhood. In her memoir, Lady in Waiting, she describes growing up at Holkham, the 27,000-acre estate of her father, […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Of all the famous gangsters of the 1920s, the men behind the murders […]
Just Mercy
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Before the feature film Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, before the HBO documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, before the TED talk […]
Junkyard Planet
Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter Do you know what happens to your old Christmas tree lights? They are shipped in a container to a scrap-metal processor in southern China […]
Indian Summer
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann After reading The White Tiger a few months ago, I became interested in Indian history, […]
I Remember Nothing
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron The conversation went something like this: Editor at Alfred A. Knopf: We need a good book for the holidays. What’s Nora got? Junior Editor: […]
How the Word is Passed
How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith They don’t host weddings at The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. The guides don’t discuss the architecture of the big house, dress […]