Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History

6 best books like Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History (Rachel Polonsky): Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, The World of Yesterday, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914, A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory, The Land Breakers

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

Author	Leah Price
ISBN	0300170920

As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists...

The World of Yesterday

Author	Stefan Zweig
ISBN	0803252242

Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

Author	Stanley Kunitz
ISBN	0393329976

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal...

The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914

Author	Béla Zombory-Moldován
ISBN	1590178092

Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I
 
An NYRB Classics Original
 
The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on holiday when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing...

A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Author	Sara Midda
ISBN	0761145265

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine gift books—a book...

The Land Breakers

Author	John Ehle
ISBN	0977228371

My father was raised in Boone, NC, in the far northwestern corner of the Appalachians of that state, about 30 miles from the Tennessee line. His parents had a hillside farm there, and I can just barely remember seeing my grandfather behind a plow being pulled by a mule. Plowing furrows on the side of a mountain...