Book Review: Queen Anne
/The much-vexed life of the last Stuart monarch gets a gripping, electrifyingly good new examination
Read MoreBook Review: The Snow Hunters
/A certain pristine elegance marks Paul Yoon's latest book
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Machete Kills
/The ironic Grindhouse killing machine is back in Robert Rodriguez's new movie
Read MoreBook Review: Jack London, An American Life
/A new life of Jack London - by the world's foremost authority on the man's life and work.
Read MoreBook Review: The Maid's Version
/Daniel Woodrell's new novel may be slim, but it burns with the fiercest struggle of them all: the madness for survival
Read MoreBook Review: My Crazy Century
/Now at last in an English translation: the heart-breaking, history-making memoir of the world's greatest Czech writer
Read MoreBook Review: Catastrophe 1914
/A master military historian joins the crowd writing about the outbreak of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: My 1980s & Other Essays
/A new collection of personal essays - some funny, some touching, all piercingly intelligent - from one of America's greatest cultural critics
Read MoreA New Laureate
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Congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and, in the words of the prize committee, “master of the contemporary short story.” Small in its explicit scope but rich in meaning, Munro’s fiction exemplifies, for many readers, the capacity and craft of her chosen form.
Book Review: Longbourn
/"'Pride and Prejudice' meets 'Downton Abbey'" is an easy way to pigeon-hole Jo Baker's new novel - but it's the cheapest way too, giving almost no hint of just how good a book this is.
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Great Sea
/David Abulafia's big book - now in paperback - tackles a subject pivotal to huge swaths of human history: the Mediterraean, that watery intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Read MoreBook Review: The Kraus Project
/The famous novelist presents some essays by a pre-war Viennese intellectual and helps us all to understand those works.
Read MoreBook Review: Jefferson and Hamilton
/A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
Read MoreBook Review: Dirty Words in Deadwood
/The cult favorite HBO western inspires an anthology of essays devoted to the show's most outrageous feature: its language (foul and otherwise)
Read MoreOctober 2013 Issue
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Read MoreThe Spirit of '79
/Two thousand years ago, a bustling seaside town on the Naples coast was engulfed in a sudden, unthinkable catastrophe: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in hot ash and froze it in death for two millennia. Can any museum exhibit capture the irresistible fascination of such a stark human drama?
Read MoreComics: Thor Omnibus Volume 2
/The first great era of Marvel Comics' immortal superhero (and present-day cinematic star), the Might Thor, is given a deluxe hardcover reprint volume
Read MoreBook Review: Countdown
/The author of the hit "The World Without Us" returns with a new book in which he ponders whether or not a world WITH us is even possible - and what it would cost.
Read MoreBook Review: Forbidden Music
/A riveting new book looks at the catastrophe that befell Germany's Jewish performers and composers when the Nazis came to power.
Read MoreBook Review: William Kent
/A symposium of distinguished scholars dissects the wildly ambitious and varied artistic life of the great William Kent
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