Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Anna Politkovskaya Georgi M. Derluguian Alexander Burry Tatiana Tulchinsky
Description: Stunningly good journalism from the murdered Russian writer and an almost too-close look at...
2007-04-30
& 7 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: George Orwell
Tags: history london paris poverty tramps
Description: Orwell remains one of the finest observers of humanity, and a hell of a writer to boot.
2007-04-30
Type: educational
Status: I recommend
Author: Michele McLellan and Tim Porter
Description: A must-read book for anyone connected with journalism.
2007-04-19
Type: educational
Status: I recommend
Author: Frederick Shook
Tags: television storytelling joruanlism
Description: A great, detailed but easy to consume guide to all aspects of visual storytelling and television...
2007-04-03
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Henry Jenkins
Description: Anyone who wants to understand what's happening with culture in the internet age needs...
2007-03-26
Type: educational
Status: I recommend
Author: Walter Murch
Description: A great look at film and video editing from a master. It's a why-to, not a how-to.
2007-03-26
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Tags: movies history, art, family, balkans, music,
Description: Wonderful journalism and essays by a writer in full command of his art.
2007-03-15
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Antonio Lobo Antunes
Description: Antunes is a master of the modern novel.
2007-01-27
& 32 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Description: In the space of a sentence, Foer can take you...
2007-01-15
& 42 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Jonathan Safran Foer Safran Foer
Description: Truly illuminating. An astonishing piece of writing, with deft humour and slow-building horror....
2007-01-07
& 29 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Haruki Murakami
Description: This may be Murakami's masterwork. And that's saying a lot, given the body of work...
2006-12-22
& 1 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Winfried Georg Sebald Anthea Bell
Description: Astonishing. Surface-simple and miles deep. Both an easy and an uneasy read.
2006-12-14
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Roy Peter Clark
Tags: journalism writing
Description: Excellent. Belongs on every writer's bookshelf...
2006-12-04
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Kati Marton
Tags: science history art writing photography hungary
Description: A well-told tale of nine extraordinary Hungarian Jews, fueled by a golden age of Budapest,...
2006-12-03
& 8 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edith Grossman
Description: A marvel of a short novel about aging, love, acceptance and loss.
2006-11-26
& 7 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: William Faulkner
Description: Faulkner at his finest.
2006-11-22
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Edith Grossman
Tags: history memoir journalism literature
Description: The first volume of Marquez's memoirs is astonishing: passionate, crammed with stories...
2006-11-04
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Thomas Cahill
Tags: history christianity culture jesus palestine
Description: An amazing examination of the flesh-blood reality of Jesus and the Gospel writers and their...
2006-10-13
& 10 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Margaret Atwood
Description: Hugely inventive and engagingly written. Funny, touching, deep and moving. This book, like...
2006-09-12
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Miguel Angel Asturia
Description: Powerful writing that edges the surreal while dealing deeply with corruption and the cynical...
2006-08-24
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Description: A sprawling, tragic, epic novel of Crete under the domain of the Turks. Powerful writing and...
2006-08-02
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Michael Ignatieff
Tags: history philosophy journalism afghanistan balkans
Description: Three short essays on the new realities of empire as it applies to Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia...
2006-07-10
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Philip Caputo
Description: Powerful, tragic novel of Sudan and relief workers. May be Caputo's best.
2006-07-02
& 3 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: John McPhee
Description: More wonderful storytelling from a master of the craft of literary journalism.
2006-06-20
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Sayed Kashua Miriam Shlesinger
Description: Great gritty drama that spares neither Isarelis nor Arabs.
2006-06-12
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Hector Tobar
Tags: journalism sociology latino hispanic
Description: Well-written, essential look at the Hispanic/Latino reality of the U.S.
2006-06-06
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Description: Laugh-out-loud humour and biting satire about the media. An old book, but a favourite.
2006-05-24
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Nicholas Gage
Tags: history memoir greece civil_war
Description: Remarkable, chilling, saddening and, finally, uplifting.
2006-05-16
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Vikas Swarup
Description: An amazing work, filled with humour and sorrow.
2006-05-03
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Alberto Manguel
Tags: novella
Description: Devilishly good novella about RLS's last days. Very Poe-like.
2006-04-26
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Jose Saramago Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
Description: Saramago in full, fine voice, with delectable humour, cutting satire. He explores deep questions...
2006-04-10
& 1 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Tags: egyptian cairo nobel_prize
Description: A great book. While tragic, it is also filled with humour and compassion for the residents...
2006-04-03
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: John Phillip Santos
Description: Wonderful, touching and magical.
2006-03-21
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Garth Cartwright
Tags: travel music balkans roma brassbands
Description: A great piece of music writing, as lively as the Balkan-area Roma music he covers
2006-03-02
& 22 users
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Haruki Murakami
Description: Amazing, wonderful piece of fiction. Filled with humour, deep ideas and emotion. A powerful...
2006-02-27
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: William Saroyan
Description: A memoir in the form of a series of delightfully...
2006-02-05
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Pico Iyer
Tags: travel buddhism essays profiles
Description: This is the most somber Pico Iyer book I've read. The collection of pieces is almost a...
2006-02-03
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Jon Lee Anderson
Tags: war iraq journalism baghdad
Description: An incredible piece of reporting and writing from Jon Lee Anderson, whose New Yorker reports...
2006-01-24
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Description: A short novel, stripped down the essence. The writing is compellingly good.
2006-01-11
Type: special
Status: I recommend
Author: David Weinberger
Tags: philosophy internet
Description: Essential reading if you want to understand the internet or, for that matter, life. It's...
2006-01-07
