Guest Movie Review: Now You See Me
/A band of stage magicians skilled at all kinds of illusions are suspected of pulling off an all-too-real bank heist in Louis Leterrier's new movie
Read MoreIn Paperback: Catching Fire
/The second volume in Suzanne Collins' phenomenally popular series is at long last available in paperback
Read MoreBook Review: Alexander the Great
/The translator of Oxford's superb new edition of Arrian's book on Alexander the Great maintains that it should be appreciated at least as much for its literary merit as for its historical value - which would have pleased Arrian immensely, and which may in fact be true.
Read MoreBook Review: Ancient Israel
/The violent, heroic Wild West of the Bible is given a magnificent new translation and commentary
Read MoreClassics Reissued: World War Z!
/In advance of the movie, Max Brooks' epic zombie novel (now with the customary ugly movie cover) is given a big reprint run in search of even more fans ...
Read MoreInk a Dinka Don't
/Is close reading disappearing? And is that the most pressing problem facing universities? Terry Eagleton's latest, How to Read Literature is a plea for a return to what made the humanities worth knowing.
Read MoreJune 2013 Issue
/"96th Street" by Jeffrey Eaton
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6
/The sixth installment (God help us all) of the brainless car-porn series roars into theaters
Read MoreBook Review: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
/One of our most enjoyable science-writers turns in a reasonably hopeful prognosis for mankind's future
Read MoreBook Review: The Guns at Last Light
/A historian's great trilogy about U.S. forces at war on WWII's Western front at last comes to its finish
Read MoreBook Review: Sacred Games
/As if the tensions between Athens and Sparta at the 80th Olympiad weren't bad enough, now there's a dead Spartan - and the chief suspect is Athenian. Young everyman investigator Nico is on the case.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
/Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the villain in the latest installment of J.J. Abrams' re-invention of "Star Trek"
Read MoreBook Review: Edmund Burke, the First Conservative
/The so-called 'father of conservatism' gets an aphoristic new biography from a very interested party.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Glittering Prizes
/The great diplomat and statesman John Hay is the subject of a riveting new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance
/A scrupulously intelligent and lavishly illustrated new book examines the enormous impact one ancient text had on the whole of the Italian Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: The 5th Wave
/Is Rick Yancey's latest teen-targeted sci-fi thriller mere filler for fans waiting on the next "Hunger Games" volume, or is there some meat on its bones?
Read MoreBook Review: The Plantagenets
/Using castles and cunning, swords and statesmanship, guile and guts, they ruled England (and big chunks of France) for over two centuries - they were the Plantagenets, and they're the subject of a boisterous new history
Read MoreBook Review: Global Crisis
/The 17th century found itself caught between widespread social upheaval and natural catastrophes unprecedented in human history - an absorbing new history looks at the entire world four centuries ago ... and of course glances at our own
Read MoreBook Review: Europe
/That long-standing hotbed of world history, Europe, gets a big new dissection by one of our most engaging historians
Read MoreBook Review: Tocqueville - The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty
/A brilliant French study of Tocqueville's "Democracy in America" at last has an English translation
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