Land Essays

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself?

In a time of chaos, the number one New York Times best-selling political humorist asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch.

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.

Wieso wohnt das Glück in Osnabrück? Weshalb ist der "kleine Prinz" bei Diktatoren beliebt? Und warum sind die Türen in Dessau so niedrig? In seinen erstmals versammelten meisterhaften Reportagen und Betrachtungen schreibt Harald Martenstein die Biographie eines Landes, das sich so radikal und komisch gewandelt hat wie seine eigene Generation: von Heinz Erhardt zu Attac, von der Kneippkur zur Schwarmintelligenz.