John Hickman: 20 books

From Russia’s annexation of Crimea to China’s ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea, it is clear that territory is as important in international politics now as it has ever been. Yet too few contemporary foreign policy makers, journalists, and scholars are able to speak coherently about...

An insider’s tell-all account of one of the darkest chapters of the War on Terror: “A must-read for anyone trying to understand our post-9/11 world” (J. Malcolm Garcia, author of The Khaarijee). The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention...

È successo l’impensabile: un noto arcicriminale, per di più con seri problemi di sanità mentale, è a capo dell’H.A.M.M.E.R., la più grande organizzazione per la sicurezza nazionale degli Stati Uniti. Norman Osborn, noto alle cronache per essere stato il supercriminale di nome Goblin, ha salvato...

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.” The New American Poetry is referred to in every...

Dell Hinton left the Boston Police Department after a high-profile shooting incident and moved to a quiet community in Maine. After living by the lake for a year, his friend, the local minister, convinces him to run for the office of Castaway County Sheriff. Once elected, Dell assumes the new position...

Wendell Dell Hinton, sheriff of Castaway County, Maine, is happily sleeping when his phone rings in the middle of the night, alerting him to a multiple homicide at a local truck stop. As Dellwho has already solved a ten-year-old cold case during his first termcrawls out of bed, kisses his news anchor...