Minotaur
9 best books like Minotaur (Benjamin Tammuz): Agent Running in the Field, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East, Food in History, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, The Woman Destroyed, Leaving the Atocha Station, River of Shadows, A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
Agent Running in the Field
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 1984878875 |
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
| Author | William Dalrymple |
| ISBN | 0805061770 |
In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting...
| Author | Reay Tannahill |
| ISBN | 0517884046 |
I read this book a few years ago (softcover book), and it sits as a treasured book in my collection (I'd like to have a hard cover of it one day). This is a fantastic reference book. It begins where humans began, back in the caves, and gives archeological evidence as well as common sense theories on how certain...
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
| Author | Lawrence N. Powell |
| ISBN | 0674059875 |
This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense imperial rivalries of Spain, France, and England, and...
Rich and powerful writing in these three novellas. I will definitely read more of this author.
The first novella, The Age of Discretion, centers around the aging process and the end of careers of both husband and wife. In addition, there’s the bitter disappointment the woman feels after...
Leaving the Atocha Station
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 1566892740 |
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential...
| Author | Valerio Varesi |
| ISBN | 1906694273 |
In a bleak valley in Northern Italy, the River Po is swollen to its limits. The thick fog that usually clings to the town, blurring its surroundings and plunging its inhabitants into near-blindness, has been driven out by the raging storm. So when an empty barge drifts downriver, the fact the owner is...
A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis
R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and 'A' level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required...
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0735217920 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs...
