Book Review: Watching Them Be
/A long-time movie critic assembles some of his most passionate and fascinating essays on the great directors and actors of cinema's golden age
Read MoreBook Review: The Emperor Far Away
/A veteran reporter journeys deep into the heart of modern China and brings back predictably exotic stories
Read MoreThomas Berger
/Thomas Berger
Read MoreBook Review: You're Not Much Use To Anyone
/If a feckless young hipster writes an autobiographical novel about a feckless young hipster, does it make a sound?
Read MoreBook Review: Michelangelo - A Life in Six Masterpieces
/A new biography looks at the long life of one of mankind's greatest artists through six of his greatest works
Read MoreBook Review: Tower Lord
/Anthony Ryan follows up his much-praised debut "Blood Song" with a much more ambitious sequel
Read MoreBook Review: Travels with Casey
/An enterprising young writer takes his dog on a road-trip around America in search of all the dog-crazy people the country can provide
Read MoreBook Review: A Possibility of Violence
/Tel Aviv writer D. A. Mishani's police detective Avraham Avraham returns to his old precinct and is immediately embroiled in black markets, plots, and counter-plots.
Read MoreBook Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 31st Collection
/The legendary science fiction anthology series by Gardner Dozois reaches its thirty-first incarnation, with 700 pages of standout stories
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of a Human Heart
/A debut short story collection spans the world for its settings and marks the appearance of a notable talent
Read MoreBook Review: Sisters of Treason
/Lady Jane Grey was famously Queen of England for less than a fortnight before being executed by Queen Mary I; Elizabeth Fremantle's new book takes us into the world of Lady Jane's two sisters, adrift in a royal court that can't afford to trust them.
Read MoreBook Review: Alias Hook
/The villainous Captain Cook from "Peter Pan" stars in Lisa Jensen's new novel - but it's a far more complex and sympathetic version of the character than Neverland fans will remember
Read MoreElaine Stritch
/Rest in Peace
Read MoreBook Review: California
/After a handily vague apocalypse, a forlorn hipster couple bickers in the woods in Edan Lepucki's much-hyped debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Great War for Peace
/Did the cataclysmic First World War actually have a hidden peace-dividend? Did it change the vocabulary of rapprochement forever? A vigorous new study makes a daring case
Read MoreBook Review: Landline
/If you found a phone that could make calls to your own past, how would you use it? Or would you use it at all?
Read MoreBook Review: War of Attrition
/One of the foremost historians of the First World War offers a comprehensive and brutal overview of the conflict that gave birth to the modern world
Read MoreBook Review: A Mad Catastrophe
/A gripping account of the final days of the inept, tottering Austro-Hungarian empire - and the military apocalypse it helped to usher in
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Richard III
/The discovery of Richard III's skeleton in 2012 has flushed a number of books about the legendary dark monarch back into print - and none more welcome than this snappy volume by veteran biographer Desmond Seward
Read MoreBook Review: Season to Taste
/A discontented English housewife impulsively kills her husband and is then faced with the logistical problem of what to do with his body. In Natalie Young's chillingly readable new novel, that housewife does what comes naturally
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