The OLM Quiz -- Humbled for the Holidays
/Tempt the pagan gods by testing your luck on this month's OLM Quiz
Read MoreBook Review: 1781
/A flinty new account of a pivotal year in the American Revolution
Read MoreBook Review: Reprobates
/They were for King, country, and courtesans - not necessarily in that order! They were the Cavaliers, and a spirited new book tells their story.
Read MoreBook Review: Catherine the Great
/She nearly doubled the size of the Russian empire, she debated with philosophers, she endowed the first women's college in Russia, and she was a beloved mother to her people for 34 years - and she had a steady stream of lovers through it all. She was Catherine the Great.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Napoleon
/Arcade Publishing re-issues Frank McLynn's merrily magnificent biography of that pestiferous little Corsican!
Read MoreBook Review: The Romulan War
/Two new linked "Star Trek" novels dramatize a pivotal event in the fictional universe of the beloved TV show - Earth's first war with the Romulans!
Read MoreBook Review: Venice Disputed
/A beautifully illustrated examination of one Venetian nobleman's life-long wrangling with the experts over the public face of the Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreBook Review: The Goblin King
/A new romance makes beefcake from the least likely material imaginable, treasure-hunting goblins
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
/One of the greatest works of 20th century - and of all time - gets a handsome paperback reprint as it turns 50.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Evolution - The First Four Billion Years
/A gigantic new paperback examines every nook and cranny of Darwin's famous theory, still controversial after 150 years.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Once and Future King
/T. H. White's towering, sad, uplifting tale of King Arthur, Merlyn, Guenever, and Lancelot gets a beautiful Penguin reprint
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Lucretius
/A handsome re-issue of the best English-language translation of Lucretius' famous (and famously scatter-brained) poem
Read MoreNovember 2011 Issue
/from "A Strange Beauty"by John Bonath
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Essential X-Men Vol. 2
/X-Men fans new and old can rejoice in this hefty re-issued collection of classic tales
Read MoreBook Review: Barn Owl
/A beautiful new book on one of the most recognizable and evocative of all birds, the barn owl
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Antony and Cleopatra
/New in paperback: an excellent dual biography of one of history's most famous couples.
Read MoreBook Review: 1066
/A sharply realistic new history of the Norman invasion and conquest of England
Read MoreBook Review: The Dovekeepers
/An ambitious historical novel (about the Jewish fortress of Masada) from a well-loved contemporary novelist
Read MoreBook Review: Exodus from the Alamo
/A revisionary new account takes a hammer to every cherished myth about the heroic last stand at the Alamo.
Read MoreBook Review: Caravaggio
/A lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
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