Book Review: The War at the Edge of the World
/A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The Captive Condition
/The forgotten Midwestern town of Normandy Falls becomes the setting for an increasingly horrifying - and surreal - series of events in Kevin Keating's outstanding new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hostile Takeover
/In "Hostile Takeover," Shane Kuhn provides a raucous follow-up to his popular novel "The Intern's Handbook"
Read MoreBook Review: The Insect Farm
/Two brothers - one simple-minded, the other quite possibly devious - are at the heart of Stuart Prebble's new thriller
Read MoreBook Review: The Summer of Good Intentions
/Three sisters and their various husbands and children gather at the family's inviting old Cape Cod vacation home, where they face drama, revelation, heartache, and maybe personal re-invention.
Read MoreBook Review: Newport
/A wealthy family in dazzling 1920s Newport, Rhode Island faces problems and revelations in both the material world of their huge estate - and also in the spirit world, where secrets will be revealed
Read MoreBook Review: The Exchange of Princesses
/In the early 1720s, the regent of France risked both his young king and his young daughter on high-stakes international gambles in the ongoing War of Succession; a sparkling new novel dramatizes the events
Read MorePeer Review: Front Row Seats
/Biographer Zachary Leader takes his readers on a long, detailed tour of the first half of Saul Bellow's life, and while those readers may be loving it, the critics have been complaining!
Read MoreThe Whip Descends
/Why do we read the same story over and over? In Virginia Woolf's case, it's to learn again how great art emerged from her strange life of privilege and grief.
Read MoreThe Book and the Boy
/A thousand years ago, a refined lady at the Japanese Court wrote the first and one of the greatest novels of all time, The Tale of Genji; Dennis Washburn does the latest translation of this immense work, with stunning results.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: A Legacy
/Sybille Bedford's great novel - now in a pretty reprint from the New York Review of Books - has the sweep of Edward Gibbon and the emotional vitality of Jane Austen. Robert Minto takes a new look at a classic.
Read MoreBook Review: People of the Songtrail
/Fifteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of northeastern Canada encounter intruders from over the sea: Vikings
Read MoreBook Review: The Melody Lingers On
/A rich investment swindler disappears on his boat - and with a great chunk of his ill-gotten gains - and the plot is afoot in the latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark
Read MoreBook Review: Margaret of Anjou
/In Iggulden's ongoing series about the Wars of the Roses, England's Queen Margaret struggles to hold onto her power - and her life - even as her husband the king slips in and out of sanity
Read MoreBook Review: In the Unlikely Event
/A New Jersey town repeatedly struck by falling planes is the setting for Judy Blume's new book
Read MoreBook Review: Death and Mr. Pickwick
/An ambitious debut novel explores the world that gave birth to the meteoric career of Charles Dickens and his lesser-known competitors
Read MoreBook Review: The Islanders
/A woman dies in Versailles, and her death sets in motion a tangled plot connecting a small group of people in this 2010 novel by Pascal Garnier
Read MoreBook Review: The Wolf Border
/The effort of an eccentric earl to re-introduce wolves to England draws a zoologist back to the home she left years before
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfortunates
/The steely matriarch of a wealthy family is losing both her health and her control over her family in this sharp debut novel by Sophie McManus
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