Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own. […]
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwins now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the […]
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography, by Alex Ferguson, is his second autobiography and it presents his experiences and journey as the manager of the football team, Manchester United, from 2000 to 2013. Alex has been the part of Manchester United??s journey from their initial days to their heights of glory and this book is highlights his […]
The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to ??live in interesting times.? Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment??of ethnic Chinese who had settled for many years in northern India. […]
Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends since childhood, but theyve never been in love. For that, they chose others: Gina married Fergus, who gave her a daughter and a life of elegance and wealth, and Laurence wed Hillary, who helped him build a cozy, successful hotel and counts Gina among her dearest […]
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingways most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes “The Killers,” the first of Hemingways mature […]
Janey Wilcox is an M.A.W. (thats Model/Actress/Whatever to the uninitiated). The problem with Janey, the protagonist of Candace Bushnells first novel, Trading Up, is not the M or the A part. Its the W. Here is a rare alphabetical anomaly: In Janeys case, W stands for “prostitute.” Oh, Janey never crosses the line into actual […]
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz??s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of ??the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,? […]
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice??s Adventures in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. ??The clue to the enduring fascination and greatness of the Alice books,? writes A. S. Byatt in her Introduction, ??lies […]
How can we account for the extraordinary strength of Islam in the modern world? Are the views of the Enlightenment still an acceptable basis for social order? In Postmodernism, Reason and Religion, Ernest Gellner suggests that we face three ideological options at the present time: a return to the genuine and firm faith of religious […]
Hannah Shah is an Imams daughter. She lived the life of a Muslim but, for many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At 16, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she ran away. Hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were […]
If people have lost their lives in a storm, it is a different matter; but how can a massacre be forgotten? Especially when theres been no justice? The three days of 1984, when over 3000 Sikhs were slaughtered, have indelibly marked the lives of thousands more who continue to exist in a twilight of bitterness […]