Book Review: Geneaology of the Pagan Gods
/A massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
Read MoreBook Review: Hounded
/A new fantasy series about a sexy druid (two thousand years young) fighting supernatural threats in present-day Arizona.
Read MoreBook Review: Worlds Made By Words
/New in paperback: a book that illuminates the slightly abstruse joys of scholarship.
Read MoreBook Review: The Mighty Thor by Walter Simonson
/The fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.
Read MoreBook Review: Bismarck
/An excellent new biography gives us the man behind the so-called Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck
Read MoreBook Review: Moontusk
/The first volume of a fantasy series set in a richly-imagined world of woolly mammoths and exotic tribesmen.
Read MoreBook Review: American Masculine
/A new collection of short stories is set in an American West that's masculinely bleak - or is it bleakly masculine?
Read MoreBook Review: A Taint in the Blood
/The first book in a new vampire series shows all the veteran author's signature strengths.
Read MoreBook Review: The Morning Star
/Overlook Press publishes a powerful and disturbing posthumous work by Andre Schwarz-Bart, author of the masterpiece "The Last of the Just"
Read MoreBook Review: The Life of Polycrates
/An interesting - if problematic - collection of short stories by the author of "Metrophilias"
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Annotated Origin
/Now published in paperback: a fantastic annotated edition of Charles Darwin's eternally-relevant bombshell, "On the Origin of Species"
Read MoreBook Review: She-Wolves
/An immensely enjoyable new book looks at four women who ruled England in the centuries before Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreReview of A Fortunate Age
/Steve Donoghue grapples with the initial irritations and eventual pleasures of Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age: "The process that changes your reaction will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been seduced by New York (a sordid, delectable experience that can happen repeatedly throughout your life – and against which there is no known vaccine)."
Read MoreBook Review: Faith
/In her latest novel, Jennifer Haigh explores the impact of the Boston Catholic Church sex abuse scandal on the lives of one close-knit family.
Read MoreMemo to a Colleague
/Is Marjorie Garber's defense of literary studies balm to the beleaguered English professor's soul? Not yet, anyway.
Read MoreOn the Scent: The Odorants in Deodorants
/Our resident nose sniffs those most populist of perfumes: the ones we rub under our arms. Join her on a guided tour through the pharmacy aisle.
Read MoreMay 2011 Issue
/“Music Box Toaster” by Julie Schustack
Read MoreBook Review: The Great Sperm Whale
/Prolific author Richard Ellis returns with a gripping new book about the monster from Melville, the mysterious and majestic sperm whale.
Read MoreBook Review: The Social Animal
/David Brooks' new book presents us with Harold and Erica, two characters who are meant to represent the way we live now. The results are quasi-fictional, at best.
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