Comics: Thor the Mighty Avenger
/A new collection featuring the adventures of a decidedly off-beat version of Marvel's resident Thunder God
Read MoreComics: Marvel First - WWII Superheroes
/The Angel - the Silver Scorpion - the Destroyer - the Black Marvel - the Blazing Skull: not exactly household names today, but in the dark days of World War II, they fought the forces of evil for the entertainment of a new kind of reader: comic book fans
Read MoreBook Review: A Great and Monstrous Thing
/"Houses, Churches, mix'd together - Streets, unpleasant in all Weather" - so wrote the poet about resolute, dissolute London, whose 18th century excesses are the subject of a grand new book
Read MoreBook Review: How Literature Saved My Life
/David Shields, author of the 'manifesto' "Reality Hunger," is still unhappy with boring old books. In fact, he's still writing books about how unhappy he is.
Read MoreBook Review: A Week in Winter
/Unsure of what to do with her life, a woman turns an old stone house into an inn on the coast of Ireland, and strangers begin to gather ...
Read MoreBook Review: I Will Have Vengeance
/In 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi pursues the most desperate of criminals, driven by an absolute commitment to justice - and helped by a gift he alone possesses.
Read MoreBook Review: The Aviator's Wife
/A new novel tells the story of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, famous author and wife of an even more famous jerk.
Read MoreBook Review: Europe Before Rome
/A profusely illustrated you-are-there look at the excavations into European prehistory
Read MoreBook Review: Furies
/The Italian Renaissance of Michelangelo and Raphael was built by - and traumatized by - the constant tramping of hired armies. A provocative new study looks at the birth-price of the modern era
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Warm Bodies
/"Warm Bodies" is a zombie rom-com: but does boy meet girl, or EAT girl?
Read MoreBook Review: Prosperous Friends
/There are delights of both language and story in Christine Schutt's novel of connubial misery, Prosperous Friends. Greg Gerke reviews.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: West with the Night
/The great travel-adventure classic gets a pretty new reprint
Read MoreBook Review: Ways of Going Home
/The newest novel from the newest Chilean literary wunderkind
Read MoreBook Review: Engineers of Victory
/A new history of the Second World War focuses on the mid-level thinkers and technicians whose innovations made the grand strategies work
Read MoreFebruary 2013 Issue
/"Refinement and Elegance," 2010by Caleb Cole
Read More"I'm interested in failure..."
/a conversation with cover-artist Caleb Cole
Read MoreBook Review: The Best of Youth
/In Michael Dahlie's new novel, an idle young millionaire ghost-writes a book for an arrogant Hollywood star
Read MoreBook Review: Money Run
/She's a master thief who wants to rob the world's richest man; he's a master assassin who wants to kill the world's richest man - what happens when they run headlong into each other in a glass-and-steel death-trap?
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel
/The adorable little candy-seeking moppets from the folk tale are all grown up and exceedingly well-armed in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
Read MoreBook Review: The Making of the First World War
/A new history of World War I looks at twelve fragile moments, twelve turning points when small factors determined very large outcomes
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