Book Reviews & Recommendations
Shipwreck, mutiny, and the uneasy truth about empire and human nature Quick Take David Grann’s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is a propulsive work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a sea adventure and lands like a courtroom […]
Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief reads like a heist thriller that happens to be true. It follows Stéphane Breitwieser, a soft spoken Frenchman who relieved European museums, churches, and small galleries of hundreds of Renaissance and medieval treasures between 1995 and 2001. […]
What would happen if a nuclear missile were launched toward the United States today, in real life? That haunting question lies at the heart of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, a pulse-pounding, meticulously researched nonfiction thriller that imagines the unthinkable in […]