Burning The Days
Recounting his years as a fighter pilot and writer, Salter's nostalgic and melancholic memoir drips with a Don Draper-esque masculinity.
Non-fiction
14 books
Collected Works
“My first love was poetry, my second love was fiction and my third and lasting love was the essay.”
Nuclear War: A Scenario
A cinematic glimpse into Armageddon.
Intervals
Perfectly composed: a brilliant essay on care, grief, love and death.
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
A singular, mischievous and meticulous artist, carefully unpacked.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Herzog has lived many lives and exudes an endless curiosity — as if, as a child, he fell into a Bavarian creek awash with potion and clambered out anew, like some German Obelix.
The Living Mountain
Spellbinding descriptions of walking the hills of the Cairngorms.
The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion's powerful book on grief, injected with remarkable brevity, in which she guides readers through her experience with a striking sense of calm.
