A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
by Carrie Rickey
Agnès Varda made her first film in her twenties, before the French New Wave, with which she was long associated, began to crest; she made her last in her nineties, when she had lived long enough to wi... (Tom)
A Month in the Country
by J.L. Carr
This little book carried such a reputation—as one of those exquisite literary gems whose compact perfection is a miracle of tone and concision—that for a long time I didn't want to actually read it an... (Tom)
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by Adam Higginbotham
The tenth and last flight of Space Shuttle Challenger lasted only 73 seconds; to tell the full history of those terrible moments, Adam Higginbotham requires, justifiably, over five hundred pages and m... (Tom)
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
A delicate and lyrical counterpoint to the weighty Challenger, Orbital is called a novel, but it bears about as much relation to your average novel as its characters' sixteen daily zero-gravity orbits... (Tom)