The Frugal Chariot

Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Res t  by William Easterly "The quest for agency is everywhere and nowhere in the busin...

The Roving Shadows  by  Pascal Quignard "We were constructed in the shadows. Passively in the shadows." - Pascal Quignard The book...

Time Shelter   by Georgi Gospodinov Time Shelter introduces Gospodinov to American readers as a key figure in international literature. Geo...

At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop “Until a man is dead, he is not yet done being created.” ― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black...

Ludwig's Room  by Alois Hotschnig "What we've become is horrifying and what we will become is disastrous. We're destroyed...

Goethe Dies  by Thomas Bernhard "I went inside myself, so to speak, and not outside myself anymore." - Thomas Bernhard Thomas Be...

Under the Net  by Iris Murdoch “I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotio...

If You Kept a Record of Sins   by Andrea Bajani "I think it happened to you, too, the first time you arrived." - Andrea Bajani Th...

The Fate of the Earth & The Abolition  by Jonathan Schell “It was not unless one lifted one's gaze from all the allegedly normal ev...

Heat and Dust  by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala   “Shortly before the monsoon, the heat becomes very intense. It is said that the more intense it be...

Personae  by Sergio de la Pava "Creation is often a nebulous process, not susceptible to easy categorization, at the end of which a pro...

The Grand Inquisitor Ivan Karamazov tells his younger brother Alyosha the well-known parable "The Grand Inquisitor" in Fyodor Dost...

On the Beach   by Nevil Shute “It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will g...

Twist  by Colum McCann “Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many times ...

The Sibyl  by Pär Lagerkvist “Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.” ― Pär Lagerkvist, T...

The Exorcist  by William Peter Blatty “Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - som...

Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress   by Roy Scranton This is a searing investigation of the state of the world vis a vis cl...

  Art of Humanism   by Kenneth M. Clark “Ruskin said: ‘Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their dee...

The Folded Leaf  by William Maxwell “But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey.” ― William Maxwell, The F...

Great Expectations  by Vinson Cunningham “...I wanted to be more than a Rorschach, more legible than a symbol, more vivid and musical, at le...

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana   by Umberto Eco “Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.” ― U...

Mansfield Park   by Jane Austen “This would be the way to Fanny's heart. She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-n...