EAT THE BUDDHA-- named one of the best books of 2020 by the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Outside Magazine, Geographical Magazine (U.K) … more
In “The Unwomanly Face of War,” an oral history of World War II, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich recounts a strange little story. A woman leaps into dark water to rescue a drowning man. At the shore, however, she realizes it is not a man she has hauled from the water but a giganti… more
Journalist Demick does for Tibet what she did for Sarajevo in Logavina Street (1996) and North Korea in Nothing to Envy(2010): reveal the lives of individuals struggling against state tyranny and violence. Read full review… more