Elyse Durham’s immersive and thematically timely first novel centers on twin sisters, born during the Siege of Leningrad, trained as ballet dancers at the celebrated Vaganova, and launching their careers at the height of the Cold War. The plot is set to detonate at a critical point in the Cold... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 09:57:15 UTC ]
The prize-winning poet and novelist on writing and book binding, his wariness of new technology and why literature is the ultimate immersive experienceJO Morgan has published book-length poems on subjects as diverse as the 10th-century battle of Maldon and a future Martian returning to his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-22 17:00:17 UTC ]
The era's near-misses and misunderstandings serve as a cautionary tale as the United States again faces off with great-power rivals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-22 12:00:30 UTC ]
He partnered with Kai Bird to publish “American Prometheus,” one of three books he wrote on the Cold War and nuclear weapons. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-08 14:44:29 UTC ]
A onetime British spy, he used the Cold War as his canvas in such novels as “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-12-13 10:56:56 UTC ]
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, and Shattered Peace:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-18 08:47:31 UTC ]
The fear of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War was so palpable that a common joke at the time was: "What do you want to be if you grow up?" In the late 1950s, 60% of American children suffered nightmares about it. Hollywood didn't help. During the 1950s, science fiction crossed to the dark... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boris Pasternak’s great-niece Anna claims Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept copied her biography of Pasternak’s loverPublisher Penguin Random House has dismissed claims that Lara Prescott, a debut novelist who received a $2m (£1.6m) advance for her novel about the publication of Boris... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-10-01 15:39:25 UTC ]
In Lara Prescott’s “The Secrets We Kept,” young women participate in a covert plan to influence the Cold War using Boris Pasternak’s censored love story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-09-02 18:51:54 UTC ]
Another Day of Life also uses documentary to translate the horror and poetry of Ryszard Kapuściński’s book In November 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński telexed his editor in Warsaw to plead for permission to return home from Angola. The era of Portuguese colonialism was ending, the fight for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lara Prescott’s We Were Never Here recounts how the CIA used Boris Pasternak’s novel as a propaganda tool during the cold warLast month, Lara Prescott was preparing to graduate from her three-year creative writing fellowship at the University of Texas. Two weeks later, she is sitting on book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last year, Timothy Snyder published a very short book titled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century. A Yale professor who had been known for his work on World War II—specifically for his history Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin—Snyder’s focus on how to keep autocracy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile Books and Wellcome Collection have acquired The War of Nerves, an account of the Cold War by writer and broadcaster Martin Sixsmith. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador is to publish Operation Chaos by Matthew Sweet, a “compelling narrative account” of the true story of a group of US military deserters who found asylum in Sweden during the Vietnam War. Publisher Paul Baggaley acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Simon Trewin at WME, while Paul... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has acquired The Watchers, the second novel by British author Neil Spring. Fiction editor Kathryn Taussig bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Cathryn Summerhayes of William Morris Endeavour. Based on true events, The Watchers is a “spooky, historical thriller” set during the Cold... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Cold War had almost everything—two superpowers facing off in an existential struggle, spies, double agents and honey traps, lots of great books and movies. But in retrospect it was missing one important element of modern life: Internet comments. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
There was no shortage of big books to talk about at this year’s BookExpo America. From art heists to mysterious islands, from the Cold War to the Iraq War, these are the 10 books that drew lots of attention at this year’s show. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]