Book Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: Son of Superman
/In the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreThe Magus of Dreams
/Victorian author Thomas DeQuincey will forever be known mainly as the author of the fantastic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but a vivid new biography introduces readers to the man behind the masterpiece.
Read MoreStolen From Life: An Interview with Jack Kohl
/Michael Johnson interviews Jack Kohl, a Juilliard-trained pianist who also finds challenge and inspiration in writing fiction.
Read MoreBook Review: If Our Bodies Could Talk
/A handy new books ranges over the whole breadth of human aches and pains and losses and gains - and provides the science behind it all.
Read MoreBook Review: Tracking Gobi Grizzlies
/The world's most endangered population of grizzly bears is the subject of a powerful, haunting new book
Read MoreBook Review: I Contain Multitudes
/If who we are includes the multitudes of microscopic organisms that we house and feed, which in turn help regulate our immunity and sculpt our destinies, then what constitutes the individual?
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreThe Man Moses
/He challenged tyrants, parted waters, and bickered with God Almighty. Zach Rabiroff reviews a new biography of the Biblical prophet Moses.
Read MoreWorking, Working
/The indefatigable Joyce Carol Oates offers a wide variety of thoughts on books and the literary world in her new collection Soul at the White Heat. Britta Böhler reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Scarlet Experiment
/Can birds - any species of bird, anywhere in the United States - survive their contact with humanity? A new book looks at the science and the sobering numbers.
Read MoreReindeer Meat and Polo Mints
/Vita Sackville-West's granddaughter gives us an intimate look at seven generations of her famous family.
Read MoreThe Secret Things of the Earth
/A new biography explores the complicated life of the writer who gave us "The Haunting of Hill House" and "The Lottery."
Read MoreEchoes of Narcissus
/A strikingly original new book explores what happens when our need to understand our experiences exceeds the stories we can tell about them.
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreWrithing Bounty
/A gruesomely fascinating new book looks at the weird and unsettling phenomenon of venom in animal kingdom. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreActually Existing Neoliberalism
/Andrew Brower Latz sums up and recommends Colin Crouch's trenchant critique of neoliberalism.
Read MoreAbsent Friends: An Intellectual All The Time
/An old book by a monk may be the best thing ever written about the practice of thinking. Robert Minto revisits The Intellectual Life.
Read MoreLove In Every Stitch
/A fascinating book explores the relationship between necessity and love in military knitting across the ages.
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