My most recent is A Sense of the World. It’s the true story of James Holman (1786-1857), the English gentleman who didn’t let total blindness keep him from becoming the most prolific traveler of all time. The book has its own subsite, where you’ll find excerpts, reviews, supplementary materials and the like.  

Last year I was one of several co-authors of Where to Invade Next, an interesting publication from McSweeney’s. It’s a briefing book, designed to help Americans decide where we should launch our next tidy little foreign war.

I’ve also written several books on technology, primarily educational and reference works. If you’re planning to travel back to the 90s and need to learn about the software of  the era, throw a couple of these into your time machine.

My work pops up in anthologies from time to time, so here’s a running compilation of those.