This is a story about a poor man, a fakir, from a northern Indian village who is sent by his fellow villagers to Ikea in Paris to buy a new nail bed. Such a simple errand. Fly into Paris, find Ikea, conduct the transaction, fly home the next day [...]
Athene is eternal. And so are the pleas of humanity, pleas that she listens to and contemplates with the patience and weight of an immortal. Humans want happiness on earth, utopia in physical form. But how to answer their supplications? [...]
The return of the extremist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini from exile marked the transformation of Iran from a secular democracy into an Islamic republic. The Lonely War explores the ensuing thirty year period beginning with the overthrow of [...]
Thomas Asbridge shares the fascinating story of William Marshal: a real-life medieval hero well known in his day but lost to obscurity soon after his death in 1219. The discovery in 1861of a Norman-French biography written in the mid-1220s (and [...]
This memoir is a gritty day–in–the–life narrative, opening with the author’s dramatic arrest at home with his girlfriend of the moment, both of them strung out on heroin, and then jumping back in time thirty-one years to relate the events [...]
At first glance the reader may think “Bluebeard, a pirate book!” or confuse it with the French folktale of the same name. But the real “La Barbe Bleue” never sailed the seas as a pirate and did not, in fact, have a blue [...]
