ANGRY WIND: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
Jeffrey Tayler
This engrossing narration of crossing the Sahel—the Saharan borderlands of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Mali—by tortuous and frequently hair-raising local conveyances finds a barren, Continue reading »
Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing
Jeffrey Tayler
Tayler (Siberian Dawn
) takes readers on an extraordinary adventure across the largest landmass on earth, from Russia through the Caucasus into South Ossetia and Continue reading »
The ideal readers for this book would be World Bank advisers drawing up credit agreements in their five-star Moscow hotel rooms as they dine on German beef. Yet anyone seeking an understanding of Continue reading »
In this Heart of Darkness-revisited tale, Tayler (Siberian Dawn) sets out to retrace the steps of British explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who in the 1870s, accompanied by a crew of hundreds of Continue reading »
In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones
Jeffrey Tayler, Nina Khrushcheva
Khrushcheva (The Lost Khrushchev), Russian-born professor of international affairs at the New School, and Tayler (Siberian Dawn), a Moscow-based American journalist married to a Continue reading »
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA
John Lisle
Historian Lisle (The Dirty Tricks Department) offers new insight into the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA program in this enthralling account. Lisle gained access to previously unknown Continue reading »
Frasier actor Grammer (So Far...) stuns with this devastating memoir about the murder of his younger sister, Karen. In 1975, 18-year-old Karen was raped and stabbed by a gang of Continue reading »
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook
This vital biography from journalist Brook (The Accident of Color) shines a light on forward-thinking German physician Magnus Hirschfeld, who was born in 1868. As a gay Jewish Continue reading »
Photographer Mod (Kissa by Kissa) delivers a gorgeous account of his 300-mile walk around Japan’s Kii peninsula in 2021. After writing several books about the art of Continue reading »