Isaiah Berlin: A Life

6 best books like Isaiah Berlin: A Life (Michael Ignatieff): Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Repetition, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Slow Homecoming, Moon Deluxe

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Author	Hannah Arendt
ISBN	0143039881

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Author

Sonia Purnell

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."

The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...

Repetition

Author

Peter Handke

Set in 1960, this novel tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural school, and a Slovenian - German dictionary, in which Gregor has marked certain words. The...

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

Author	Isaiah Berlin
ISBN	0691090262

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his...

Slow Homecoming

Author	Peter Handke
ISBN	0020515308

Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of...

Moon Deluxe

Author	Frederick Barthelme
ISBN	0802134378

Frederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have given us a stunning, cautionary, funny, sometimes bleak, and often transcendent portrait of contemporary life in the sprawl of suburban America. Barthelme made his remarkable debut with these tender and affectionate stories, most of which...