Book Review: Graphic the Valley
/A young man born and raised in the wild of Yosemite Valley is forced into a series of confrontations with an encroaching outside world.
Read MoreBook Review: Ecstatic Nation
/A big, riveting new history looks at the unforgettable men and women who filled the history of the most tumultuous three-decade span in American history
Read MoreBook Review: Star Trek - The Art of Juan Ortiz
/What if each one of the original 79 'Star Trek' TV episodes had instead been a full-length movie? A stellar new collection of the posters for those movies boldly goes where no theater-goer has gone before
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Riddick
/Bald and ruthless interplanetary badass Riddick is back, played by the man who made him a cult sci-fi favorite
Read MoreBook Review: Confronting the Classics
/The popular teacher and blogger collects her most memorable book reviews from the last dozen years
Read MoreBook Review: A History of Ancient Egypt
/A magnificent new volume tours Egyptian history - starting a mind-bogglingly long time ago
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare's Prince
/An exhaustive - and immensely enjoyable - line-by-line examination of Shakespeare's final play
Read MoreBook Review: Fatal Rivalry
/While Henry VIII was away fighting the French, his kingdom was invaded from the north by James of Scotland. It was defended by thousands of brave soldiers, a handful of ambitious courtiers - and one remarkable woman.
Read MoreBook Review: Royal Inheritance
/Pretty young Audrey has grown up in the Tudor court thinking she's the daughter of King Henry VIII's tailor - but what if her real father is the king himself?
Read MoreBook Review: Assault on Sunrise
/In Michael Shea's new novel, an insane movie producer seeks vengeance on the wily extras who eluded his grasp - it's a delightful riff on late-night sci-fi movies ... and a reminder of what sharp fun good science fiction can be.
Read MoreA. C. Crispin
/A. C. Crispin
Read MoreBook Review: An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky
/The gap between reality and the words with which people try to capture it lies at the heart of Dan Beachy-Quick's intelligent, lyrical novel
Read MoreBook Review: In the Olden Time
/Victorian historical painting and Victorian historical fiction met in a glorious collaboration of national mythology. Andrew Sanders, in a magnificent new study from Yale University Press, gives that collaboration a delightfully thorough questioning.
Read MoreFrederik Pohl
/Frederik Pohl
Read MoreMick Herron on Chasing After Smiley
/Mick Herron, author of the celebrated spy novel Dead Lions, opens up about the influence of the godfather of his genre, John le Carré
Read MoreBook Review: Two Boys Kissing
/In bestselling author David Levithan's new novel, two boys try to set a world's record for the longest kiss - and their adventure is cheered on by the most unlikely chorus
Read MoreHomo Sovieticus
/The USSR's Book of Tasty and Healthy Food created an impression of bounty and gourmet splendor; Anya von Bremzen's memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking reveals the Soviet kitchen's homelier truths
Read MoreSeptember 2013 Issue
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Read MoreWith Friends Like These ...
/What you don't know about bacteria can hurt you, and a new addition to the Oxford Very Short Introduction series aims to set that straight.
Read MoreBook Review: Ninety Percent of Everything
/International shipping provides virtually everything around you as you read this (including the computer you're reading it on), and yet most people no nothing about this reclusive industry. Rose George's new book sheds some light.
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