The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women-who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a...

Other Shores is an autobiographical memoir by Vladimir Nabokov, a Russian-American classic writer, author of the novels The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The Gift, and the controversial Lolita. The book was originally published in 1951 under the title Conclusive Evidence, three years later an expanded version translated into Russian by Nabokov himself was published under the title Other...