April 2013 Archive

Got two non-fiction paperback releases worth mentioning. First up: Transsibérien by Dominique Fernandez (Le Livre de poche). The writer chronicles his journey on that legendary train cutting through Russia - basically an excuse to wander through Russian literature and history. Then there's another one I'm tracking...

Jean-Paul Kauffmann - journalist, writer, cigar enthusiast - decides to trace the Marne river. On foot. Solo. Following the banks from start to finish. Why the Marne? Because according to him, it's an underrated, overlooked river that deserves better. It's more than just water and geography to Kauffmann...

Abel Truman lives alone on the North Pacific coast. Old, broken, miserable. Three decades back, he fought in the Civil War. The brutality he witnessed and participated in still haunts him. One morning, tired of the weight, he makes a decision that will define what's left of his life...

In 2002, illustrator Guy Delisle got the chance to spend two months in Pyongyang supervising animation production. Pyongyang - capital of North Korea, the world's most closed-off country, the only hereditary communist dictatorship on earth. What he documented is fascinating and unsettling...