Michael Knox: 11 books

Zum Buch Yasin Maru hat es fast geschafft: Der Anführer des libanesischen Syndikats will Berlin unter seine Kontrolle bringen. Bislang war die Stadt unter den organisierten Kriminellen friedlich aufgeteilt, doch Yasin will Krieg. Im Kampf um die Vorherrschaft stürzt er die Metropole ins Chaos...

Die Recherchen über die politischen Verbindungen des nationalsozialistischen Terror-Netzwerks werden der Reporterin Maria Berger zum Verhängnis. Nach der Veröffentlichung ihrer Reportage ermorden die Nazis sie brutal. Martin Schmidt, Marias Freund und selbst Journalist, findet ihre Recherche-Ergebnisse...

"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended." -- Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead. Not...

With The North End Poems , his always vivid new collection, Michael Knox has further honed his lucid, accessible style. In the tradition of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid , Michael Ondaatje's classic book-length poem, this at once gritty and tender lyric sequence creates a desperate but surprising...

Play Out the Match , Michael Knox's first published collection of poetry, is also an extended meditation on the idea of reconciliation. Vivid and lyrical, the poems make use of various voices, speakers, and landscapes to explore the surreptitious aspects of fear and indifference, tenderness and fragility....

In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power: Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic. Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs...

A heartbroken derelict. An abruptly idealistic executive. A father trying to reconnect with his daughters. Three men inhabiting the same neighbourhood with completely divergent lives come together in a collision that will leave each of them changed forever. In his debut novel, Michael Knox evokes,...

Overview In this provocative reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century American politics, Michael Knox Beran shows how Bobby Kennedy was shaped by values of the aristocratic class to which he had been brought up to belong. He was one of them - until he realized that...

Bringing to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, Murder by Candlelight presents a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility of the Romantic era. In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England....

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.   The...

A critical assessment of whether transparency is a broadly transformative force in global environmental governance or plays a more limited role. Transparency—openness, secured through greater availability of information—is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of...