Colleen McCullough
/Colleen McCullough
Read MoreBook Review: Half-Life
/In 1950 a prominent Western nuclear physicist disappeared - and re-surfaced years later in the Soviet Union, helping the Russians to develop their atomic arsenal. A gripping new book tells the story of a traitor who was also a genius
Read MoreBook Review: Like A Bomb Going Off
/Revolutionary Russian choreographer Leonid Yakobson fought prejudice, rivals, and the omnipresent Soviet censors to pursue his art, as a magnificent new book narrates
Read MoreBook Review: Ocean Worlds
/World after world detected by powerful long-range telescopes are being shown to possess oceans - probably radically different from those of Earth; a new book looks at water worlds, our own and others
Read MoreBook Review: American Passage
/For the earliest New England settlers, there were no roads through the wilderness - only the pathways used by suspicious and distrustful natives. And yet, the desire to share news was as strong as ever - a fascinating new book looks at the ways gossip travels in the woods.
Read MoreBook Review: Thieves of State
/When states engage in corruption - and condone it in other states - they fuel exactly the kind of tensions that, short of war, are the only things that can threaten those states; a stunning new book examines the kinetics of wrongdoing
Read MoreBook Review: The Middle Ages
/A nimble and tremendously engaging history of the Middle Ages finally gets translated into English
Read MoreBook Review: Frog
/China's one-child social policy forms the grim backdrop to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mo Yan's latest translated novel
Read MoreBook Review: Blood-Drenched Beard
/In this newly-translated hit from Brazil, a young man goes in search of what really happened to his grandfather
Read MoreBook Review: Medieval Christianity
/An accessible new scholarly history looks at the millennium during which Christianity ruled the West
Read MoreBook Review: Outline
/A writing instructor takes a brief trip to Athens in Rachel Cusk's much-praised new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Taking on Theodore Roosevelt
/A lively, authoritative new book examines one of the darkest stains on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Read MoreBook Review: A Pleasure and a Calling
/A small-town's mild-mannered real estate agent isn't done with your house after he's sold it to you - in Phil Hogan's new novel, he keeps a spare key, and he snoops around while you're away
Read MoreBook Review: Schubert's Winter Journey
/Schubert's haunting song-cycle "Winterreise," composed while he was mortally ill, was a mystery to his friends upon its first hearing. He assured them they'd grow to love it, and, in his latest book, Ian Bostridge certainly has
Read MoreBook Review: Black River
/In S. M. Hulse's debut novel, a former prison guard in small-town Montana is traumatized by the events of a riot the happened years ago
Read MoreBook Review: The Man Who Couldn't Stop
/According to modern medical diagnostics, thousands of people suffer (to varying degrees of severity) from OCD, and yet the science of understanding the condition is maddeningly vague - as science writer David Adam reports
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Warrior
/Decade after decade, one man has worked at the heart of the Pentagon, advising a long string of presidents and cabinet ministers about the role of American power in the world. A new book brings his story out of the shadows.
Read MoreBook Review: Glow
/Ned Beauman's new novel takes readers on a wild ride from London drug-raves to international conspiracies, with some extra-intelligent foxes thrown in along the way
Read MoreBook Review: Why the Romantics Matter
/A new handbook in the Yale series enlists a famous biographer to analyze the appeal of the Romantic movement
Read MoreBook Review: A Bad Character
/A proper young woman in Delhi meets a slightly improper young man - and a tragic, mesmerizing love story is born in this accomplished debut
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