Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
7 best books like Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s (Otto Friedrich): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, The Difference Engine, The Emigrants, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
This pleasant novelette won the 2019 Hugo Award, and it’s free online. An imugi (a magical serpent that’s an earlier stage of a dragon, at least in this world’s mythology) wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged dragon and live in the heavens. Every thousand years the imugi, Byam, gets...
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the...
| Author | W.G. Sebald |
| ISBN | 0099448882 |
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
Written with...
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
| Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| ISBN | 0375701478 |
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and...
Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes equates...
