Book Review: The Novel - A Biography
/A luminous - and enormous - new account of the novel's colorful history takes readers on a fun and fast-paced tour of fiction from Fielding to Diaz, with innumerable stops in between
Read MoreBook Review: The Bombers and the Bombed
/Even in its truncated US edition, Richard Overy's great new history of aerial bombing during WWII has much to offer its readers
Read MoreBook Review: The Literary Churchill
/The man we think of as the quintessential politician was first and foremost a working author, as an amazing new assessment makes clear
Read MoreBook Review: My Lady Viper
/King Henry VIII's last wife referred to her as "Hell," and the Court universally despised her coarse ambition - she was Anne Seymour, and she's the unlikely subject of a nifty new novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Poisoner
/1856 London rang from one end to the other with the celebrated murder trial of Dr. William Palmer. A delightful new history presents the story for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Pagan Britain
/For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived and thrived and worshipped in what is now the British Isles, raising massive monuments and scorching the very ground in the long ages before the arrival of Christianity; a magisterial new history recounts as much as we now know about those lost centuries
Read MoreBook Review: Tarzan and the City of Gold
/When one comics legend stepped down from the "Tarzan" newspaper comic strip nearly a century ago, another comics legend - Burne Hogarth - took over, and "Tarzan in the City of Gold" is Titan Books' first lavish reprint of Hogarth's run on the title
Read MoreAbsent Friends: Lean Years of Plenty
/For a little over two years, shortly before she died, short story master Katherine Mansfield wrote a weekly book review column. Those pieces not only shed light on Mansfield's particular slant of genius, but have much to say about the embattled art of reviewing.
Read MoreBook Review: A World Without Jews
/A stunning portrait of a people driven by fear and then consumed by hate
Read MoreBook Review: Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
/A modern classic - now in an English-language translation - examines the roots of prewar German anti-Semitism
Read MoreBook Review: A Replacement Life
/Remembering stories about the Holocaust shades into inventing stories about the Holocaust in Boris Fishman's fantastic debut
Read MoreBook Review: The Possibilities
/A mother in Colorado, grieving for her young son, confronts the fact that he might have been leading a life she never imagined
Read MoreBook Review: Invisible Ellen
/A reclusive young woman meets a high-spirited blind girl whose enthusiasm for life opens a new world
Read MoreBook Review: Bumble Bees of North America
/A lavishly-illustrated guide book to the bumble bees of North America, in all their busy glory
Read MoreBook Review: The Steady Running of the Hour
/The life and great loves of a legendary 1920s mountain-climber reach out from the past to grab the life of a young 1990s man in Justin Go's hugely ambitious debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Marathon Conspiracy
/Two missing girls, a very dead tyrant, and the possibility of a rampaging bear are only a few of the plot-twists in Gary Corby's latest murder mystery set in the Athens of Pericles
Read MoreBook Review: Arctic Summer
/The fateful trip E. M. Forster took to India in 1912 was the inspiration for his greatest novel - and it's likewise the inspiration for a new novel from the author of "The Good Doctor"
Read MoreBook Review: Young God
/In this spare and violent debut, a 13-year-old girl from Appalachia enters a lawless life
Read MoreBook Review: The Norman Conquest
/That same old grand story - William of Normandy's daring capture of England in 1066 - gets a spiffy new history
Read MoreBook Review: Philology
/The complicated and far-reaching intellectual endeavor of philology is the subject of a magnificent new history that has an angry edge of its own
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