Book Review: The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
/A splendidly brainy new intellectual biography gives us the mind-life of the great orator, writer, and parliamentarian Edmund Burke
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Northanger Abbey
/Jane Austen's posthumous send-up of Gothic novels (and their breathless readers) gets a lavish annotated edition
Read MoreBook Review: The Medici Boy
/Through the eyes of an assistant, a new novel by an American master shows us the life and torturous loves of the great Renaissance artist Donatello
Read MoreBook Review: The Galapagos
/The beautiful Galapagos islands - home to finches, tortoises, and active magma - are the subject of a delightful new study
Read MoreBook Review: Jack the Ripper - The Forgotten Victims
/The first and most famous serial killer of the modern era killed five women in 1888 London - but did Jack the Ripper's crimes start there? And did they end there? The two greatest "Ripperologists" make the case for a killer's forgotten victims
Read MoreBook Review: The Double-Crested Cormorant
/That sleek and elegant diving-bird, the double-crested cormorant, faces deep-seated prejudices - and disastrous legal measures - in North America, its ancestral home
Read MoreBook Review: Lord Dismiss Us
/A fantastic British boarding-school novel from another age gets a pretty reprint
Read MoreBook Review: Louisa Catherine - The Other Mrs. Adams
/Cultured, erudite, and passionate, Louisa Catherine Adams had a long and fascinating life as wife to John Quincy Adams on the road to the presidency, and that life at long last has a superb biography
Read MoreBook Review: Wilfred Owen
/Robert Graves lived to be 90.
Read MoreBook Review: Roosevelt's Beast
/Deep in the Brazilian wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt and his son encounter a mysterious beast who kills without leaving any tracks
Read MoreBook Review: The Red Lily Crown
/A bookseller's daughter, a mad alchemist Medici prince, and a heroic Cornishman move the plot of Elizabeth Loupas's hugely enjoyable new historical novel
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Elizabeth's Daughter
/Idealistic young Mary Shelton finds love at the Tudor Court - but it's not the love her Queen has chosen for her
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Read MoreBook Review: The Cemetery of Swallows
/A morose misanthrope police superintendent investigates a killing in which the murderer traveled half-way around the world in order to murder a total stranger
Read MoreBook Review: The Time Traveler's Almanac
/A key element of science fiction DNA is the whole concept of time travel, and a gigantic new anthology assembles all the greatest time travel stories ever told
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Caroline
/The wife of England's King George II has been largely forgotten by history, but she was complimented by Swift, Pope, and Voltaire in her own day - and a new book brings her marvelously to life
Read MoreBook Review: The Sixth Extinction
/Will the latest age of man - dubbed the Anthropocene - be the last? A new book looks at the tremendous toll the human race has taken on its home planet
Read MoreBook Review: The Lady of Sorrows
/On a laid-back little Greek island, a sacred icon is forged, a local painter is dead … and a fat man is on the case
Read MoreBook Review: Hyde
/A hugely enjoyable new novel tells the familiar story of Dr. Jekyll from Mr. Hyde's point of view - and will have its readers questioning who the real monster really is
Read MoreBook Review: The Pilgrims
/When two London friends find a doorway leading to a magical realm, they think they're in luck - but Will Elliott's raucous new novel has some nasty surprises in store for them
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