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Obsession

Little Wilson and Big God

by Anthony Burgess


Reagan’s Underworld

Report of the President's Special Review Board

by John Tower and Edmund S. Muskie and Brent Scowcroft

The Tower Commission Report

with an introduction by R.W. Apple Jr.


Jean Valjean, Superstar

Les Misérables

a musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton, direct


The Home Front

Staring at the Sun

by Julian Barnes


In the Churchill Museum

Winston S. Churchill: Vol. VII, Road to Victory, 1941–1945

by Martin Gilbert


No Success Like Failure

Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur

edited and with an introduction by Denis Donoghue

Wayward Skeptic: The Theories of R.P. Blackmur

by James T. Jones


The Discreet Charms of a Demogogue

Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms

by Ernest B. Furgurson


Under the Tudor Bed

Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia

by Lacey Baldwin Smith


‘Kipper of de Vineyards’

The Language of the American South

by Cleanth Brooks


The Nuclear Opening

Star Wars: A Defense Insider's Case Against the Strategic Defense Initiative

by Robert Bowman

Watershed in Europe: Dismantling the East-West Military Confrontation

by Jonathan Dean

Searching for World Security: Understanding Global Armament and Disarmament

by Curt Gasteyger

Nuclear War, Nuclear Proliferation, and their Consequences

edited by Sadruddin Aga Khan


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