Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta ...

What Am I Doing Here?

Bruce Chatwin

''What Am I Doing Here?'(the question Rimbaud asked in Ethiopia), because it is more ragged than anything else he wrote, tells us more about Bruce Chatwin himself - his interests and friends, if not his passions. He writes of his father, of his friend...Howard Hodgkin, and his tete-a-tetes with Andre Ma...

Despair

Vladimir Nabokov

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy, Nabokov takes us int...

On Grand Strategy

John Lewis Gaddis

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades   For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its p...

Notes to Self - A Self-Care Journal

Lisa Currie

A self-care journal that's the ultimate gift to give yourself.   Self-care has become a buzzword--and a necessary part of life in our stressful and uncertain times.   As this creative, insightful journal demonstrates on every page, self-care is whatever you want it to be. Taking a walk in nature. Me...

Master of the Game - Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy

Martin Indyk

A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Twenty-two years have elapsed since th...