James Buchan, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-618-06740-4
Garlanded with laurels from British reviewers, this novel by the British author of A Parish of Rich Women and High Latitudes certainly has many strengths: a wonderful sense of the sweet corruption of modern-day Iran, a supple and eloquent style and...
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James Buchan, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-16873-5
This Cold War thriller strives for a lean, elliptical effect but, unfortunately, bleeds into dullness and occasional incomprehensibility. Buchan (A Parish of Rich Women) tells the history of a diplomatic initiative--called The Golden Plough after...
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James Buchan, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-15909-2
Hopping through what seems to be the entire canon of Western thought, from Herodotus to Hegel, Machiavelli to Marx, Cervantes to Henry Adams, Buchan presents a highly opinionated, literate and witty study of money and its usually pernicious impact...
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James Buchan, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-16999-2
Buchan, who has won notable literary prizes in England for A Parish of Rich Women and The Golden Plough, is a showy writer who has set himself here a rather difficult task: create a novelettish plot out of the sort of characters who people sex-and-sh
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James Buchan, Author . HarperCollins $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-055888-8
In a span of 50 years in the late 18th century, Edinburgh, a city of merely 40,000 inhabitants, contained some of the Enlightenment's most important thinkers, such as philosopher David Hume, economist Adam Smith, biographer James Boswell and...
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James Buchan, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-393-06121-5
In this thorough, encyclopedic study, Buchan goes beyond the modern myth of Adam Smith-father of the laissez-faire approach to free markets and champion of small government-to find a more nuanced view, one that supercedes the narrow views of...
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James Buchan. Simon & Schuster, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9777-3
British novelist and journalist Buchan traveled to Iran as an undergraduate in the 1970s. Shocked by its dissipated modernity, he says, “I thought I had come too late to see what I had come to see, forgetting an ancient lesson: that in a year or two
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