Book Review: Antarctica
/Earth's frozen, forbidding continent is the subject of Gabrielle Walker's latest book
Read MoreBook Review: The Illicit Happiness of Other People
/The death of a talented teenage artist spins his family and friends into turmoil in Manu Joseph's incredibly accomplished second novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Fall of the Stone City
/In the latest Ismail Kadare novel to be translated into English, an Albanian doctor invites the invading Nazis to an elaborate dinner at his house - but what exactly happens that night, to the strains of Schubert?
Read MoreBook Review: The World Until Yesterday
/Until comparatively recently, historically speaking, mankind existed in small hunter-gatherer societies without states or agriculture. Best-selling author Jared Diamond's latest book examines the possible up-side of those primitive edens.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Gil Kane Superman
/DC Comics collects the 1980s adventures of the Man of Steel, as drawn by the legendary Gil Kane!
Read MoreBook Review: Access All Areas
/A generous anthology collects the work of one of the greatest travel-writers of our day
Read MoreComics: Essential X-Men 11
/Marvel's X-Men reprint series reaches some epoch-defining issues
Read MoreBook Review: The Boy
/In Lara Santoro's new novella, an older woman falls head-over-heels into a physical passion for a younger man - with consequences that threaten to tear her life apart
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
/The controversial new movie about the hunt for bin Laden - and the role torture might have played in that hunt
Read MoreNew in Paperback: Rome and Rhetoric
/The rhetoric of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar might inflame you, it might make you mad - but does Garry Wills o'ershoot himself in his analysis of it all?
Read MoreBook Review: A Memory of Light
/The legendary fantasy series at long last comes to its conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: The Midwife's Tale
/A formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder
Read MoreBook Review: World War Two
/The military crucible of the 20th Century gets a new hardcover history that can be read in one hour and fifteen minutes.
Read MoreBook Review: Ice Forged
/The first volume in a new fantasy series opens on a world where the everyday background magic on which everybody depends is beginning to flicker out ...
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Alexander of Macedon
/One of the best - and certainly the most contentious - biographies of Alexander the Great gets an attractive new reprint.
Read MoreBook Review: Scenes from Early Life
/A talented novelist writes the story of his husband's family's experiences in war-torn Bangladesh - but is it life, or art?
Read MoreBook Review: The Kassa Gambit
/In the future setting of this promising sci-fi debut, world-hopping humanity finds the last thing it expected: aliens!
Read MoreNew in Paperback: The Last Son of Krypton
/The revered (and reviled) Superman director Richard Donner co-writes an epic story from the Man of Steel's past
Read MoreJanuary 2013 Issue
/A still from Face (triptych)by Aaron Angello
Read MoreBook Review: Perilous Moon
/In the night sky over Occupied France, two young men met in combat - this remarkable book tells their stories.
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