Book Review: Invisible Armies
/A big new book looks at the long history of guerrilla warfare and centers its lessons on our own time.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Light There Was
/In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreBook Review: The Library of America Aldo Leopold
/The most cherished nature classic since "Walden" gets the sparkling Library of America canonization
Read MoreBook Review: The Blue Book
/A young woman finds herself on a ship at sea with both her fiance and a mysterious man from her past, and it's all like something you'd find in a book ...
Read MoreBook Review: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
/The greatest enemy of freedom is ... democracy? Come get to know Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, ladies and gentlemen!
Read MoreBook Review: The Carriage House
/A patrician family copes with all kinds of disappointment in Louisa Hall's not-at-all-disappointing debut novel
Read MoreComics: Avengers Versus Thanos
/Before the mad demi-titan Thanos arrives to menace movie theaters in 2015, he menaced the good guys in decades of comics - a new anthology collects some of the best of the bad guy
Read MoreBook Review: After Rome
/When Roman troops left Britain forever, the locals were forced to fend for themselves - and in Morgan Llywelyn's latest historical novel, two cousins take two very different approaches to a world after Rome.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
/Director Sam Raimi takes on one of the greatest cinematic classics of 'em all - with decidedly mixed results
Read MoreBook Review: Britain Begins
/Long, long before Canute and the Confessor, England was a fascinating place - the great archaeologist Barry Cunliffe tells the tale!
Read MoreBook Review: Louis Agassiz
/He revolutionized modern science, and then modern science left him behind. Now a glowing new biography introduces him to a new generation.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
/The old folk tale gets an sfx-laden kid-friendly modern retelling by one of Hollywood's most successful directors
Read MoreBook Review: Spartacus
/He escaped from slavery, fought Rome, and became an immortal name - but what can we really know about Spartacus?
Read MoreBook Review: The Praetorian Guard
/They guarded emperors, they served emperors, and occasionally they killed emperors - they were the Praetorian Guard
Read MoreBook Review: The Devil's Looking Glass
/In his latest adventure, Mark Chadbourn's swashbuckling Elizabethan adventurer Will Swyfte continues his battle against the supernatural forces of the Unseelie Court
Read MoreMarch 2013 Issue
/By the poet Paul Hannigan, who would have turned 77 this month
Read MoreBook Review: The Leviathan Effect
/A enormous storm is bearing down on Washington D.C., and the President and his staff are confronted with a group of people who say they can stop the hurricane - for a price
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Sisters
/Sarah Gristwood (author of the utterly delightful "Arbella: England's Lost Queen") charts the triumphs and tragedies of the seven key women in the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreBook Review: The Average American Marriage
/The horny, feckless narrator of Kultgen's "The Average American Male" returns: married, with kids - and, of course, lusting after a co-worker
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
/John McClane rides again in the latest chapter of the "Die Hard" franchise
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