Book Review: The Fate of Rome
/To the long list of potential explanations for the fall of Rome, a gripping new book adds one more: climate change.
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To the long list of potential explanations for the fall of Rome, a gripping new book adds one more: climate change.
Read MoreThe relationship between an alien queen and a renegade warrior forms the heart of Jae's epic SFF novel set on the desert planet Safara in "Beyond the Red," now in paperback.
Read MoreNew in the I Tatti series: a tract in praise of Christianity (at the expense of Jews and ancient pagans) by a towering figure of the early Renaissance.
Read MoreThe ancient partnership between humans and canines is the subject of a thorough new volume of research
Read MoreA fascinating new book looks at the unendingly odd jellyfish - and some of the unexpected roles it plays in the 21st century world.
Read MoreA tremendously involving narrative history of a forgotten chapter in Internet history
Read MoreA fantastic new biography of Joseph Conrad follows him around in his travels and delves into the heart of his many books.
Read MoreThe present album brings together the super-mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta. It is as good as it gets, until you realize that you can get too much of a good thing.
Read MoreWoolf’s short fiction is under-appreciated, but in its outpourings of place and feeling we find the style and rhythm that also created her great experimental novels.
Read MoreAll of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreSome records grab you by the ears, others take longer to impress. It is in no sense to Krystian Zimerman’s discredit that his first attempt at late Schubert took three spins on my deck before I grasped the originality of his interpretation.
Read MoreIn "Cartoon County," Vanity Fair editor Cullen Murphy recounts his famous cartoonist father's adventures during the heyday of the American pop art industry.
Read MoreThe life stories of twelve incredible medieval manuscripts.
Read MoreA powerful new book covers in terrifying detail what happens to the modern world if Earth's ice caps dissolve.
Read MoreThe need for a new-gen recording of Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens is pressing. A new release aims for the crown and hits its mark.
Read MoreThe re-introduction of a wolf pack to Yellowstone National Park led to ecological changes even some naturalists didn't foresee - and gave rise to the daily dramas recounted in Nate Blakeslee's new book.
Read MoreVermeer is the name we all know, but a new exhibition demonstrates the charm and beauty of his contemporaries in 17th-century Dutch genre painting.
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Read MoreAn eerie atmosphere and finely-watched details are among the strange strengths of Fiona Mozley's odd debut novel Elmet - and among its weaknesses.
Read MoreThe battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.
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