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A zippy summertime adventure story featuring hissable bad guys, sexy good guys, a man-made plague of zombies, and an explosion or two.
Read MoreAn involving new historical novel about the legendary (and all too real) Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Read MoreThe Greenland settlements founded by the infamous Erik the Red lasted for centuries - and then failed. A new history tackles an old mystery
Read MoreOne of the greatest adventures of the Legion of Super-Heroes, now in a sturdy hardcover volume!
Read MoreA powerful debut novella about lust and the deceits of yearning.
Read MoreWe talk with William Martin, author of the newly re-released "Citizen Washington"
Read MoreTwelve years after its first appearance, "Citizen Washington," a historical novel by bestselling author William Martin, gets an attractive new paperback just in time for about a million American summer vacations.
Read MoreShelby Foote's massive three-volume military history of the Civil War is re-issued for the 150th anniversary of the war's beginning.
Read MoreIn a Victorian London gripped by the trial of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency, someone is preying on young men, and Douglas Shrove, scion of an illustrious family, is next - and doesn't know who to trust.
Read MoreWith Patrick Leigh Fermor's death, the world lost a gracious host, a tireless traveller, and one of the best prose stylists of the 20th century. We pause to appreciate him.
Read MoreVladimir Sorokin's gruesome (and frequently censored) satires puncture Russia's surprising nostalgia for the glory days of Stalin and Khrushchev; Amelia Glaser reviews two newly released works.
Read MoreThe self is strange and divided in Jenny Boully's new book of poetry; Karen Hannah tries to piece it together.
Read MoreA poem by Andrea Henchey
Read MoreWhen he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
Read MoreVisionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.
Read MoreIn the crowded field of new thrillers, John Verdon’s Shut Your Eyes Tight is right up there with the very best and not to be missed.
Read MoreWhere does perfume come from? Why, from isolated islands, Indian grasses, and sticky beards of goats and sheep. Our resident perfume critic digs into labdanum, vetiver, and galbanum and lets us know where grows the nose.
Read MoreA conversation with cover artist Elizabeth Alexander
Read MoreIt's a comfortable truism that the novels of Jane Austen are all things to all readers. But ... a life-instruction manual? From the OLM Archives, a review of A Jane Austen Education
Read MoreReligion is one of those subjects that are too important to be polite about. But can we at least agree to disagree respectfully about the meaning of life?
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