Book Review: Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
/A new biography takes advantage of recently-opened Soviet archives
Read MoreBook Review: Infamy
/In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States summarily imprisoned thousands of its Japanese citizens for the duration of the war. Richard Reeves' passionate new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: In These Times
/Jenny Uglow's new book goes into lively detail about how ordinary people in Britain experienced the cataclysmic events of the wars of the Napoleonic era
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
/Author Thom Hatch promises mind-blowing new revelations in his book on the Battle of Little Bighorn. And in other news, Rutherford B. Hayes is rumored to be contemplating a run for president.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Saved by the Sea
/In his moving account, now in paperback from New World Library, David Helvarg recounts the wonders and wealth of the world's oceans
Read MoreBook Review: Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
/Cuckoos use other species of birds to raise the young they abandon, and they've been doing it for thousands of years without getting arrested. An absorbing new book isn't precisely rooting for them, but still ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Intimate Bond
/An extremely winning new book explores the enormous ways eight particular animal kinds have altered the course of human life on Earth
Read MoreBook Review: Dead Wake
/One hundred years ago, a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, with grievous loss of civilian life. The anniversary is observed by one of our best popular historians
Read MoreBook Review: Fortune's Fool
/The latest full-dress biography of John Wilkes Booth seeks to get at the flesh-and-blood man beneath the monster
Read MoreBook Review: Hell from the Heavens
/In April of 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was bombarded by wave after wave of kamikaze fighters - and yet survived. A gripping new book tells the story of a ship that refused to die
Read MoreBook Review: "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"
/In time for the hundred-year anniversary of the Ottoman killing of over a million Armenians, a gripping new history tells the whole story of the tragedy
Read MoreBook Review: Their Last Full Measure
/The tense and frantic final months of the American Civil War forms the backdrop for Joseph Wheelan's lively new book
Read MoreBook Review: Lincoln's Autocrat
/President Lincoln's mercurial Secretary of War Edwin Stanton gets a full-dress biography that would have gladdened the heart of anybody who ever wanted to hit him with a shovel
Read MoreBook Review: James Merrill - Life and Art
/The poet James Merrill at long last gets the lavish soup-to-nuts biography he's always deserved
Read MoreBook Review: KL
/The sprawling system of concentration camps established by the Nazis gets its first comprehensive history
Read MoreBook Review: The Ransom of the Soul
/In his new book, Peter Brown offers a provocative and fascinating new look at the evolution of the Christian idea that you can be helped in the next life by how much moolah you fork over in this one
Read MoreBook Review: Visions and Revisions
/From the novelist, critic, and columnist Dale Peck comes a series of autobiographical essays and reflections about life during the height of the AIDS epidemic
Read MoreBook Review: Madness in Civilization
/A fantastic, important new study traces the history of insanity in human history
Read MoreBook Review: France 1940
/The military collapse of France in 1940 has been a punch line and byword for decades, but a provocative new book argues that the traditional view is too simple
Read MoreBook Review: One of Us
/In 2011, a man detonated a bomb in Oslo and then shot dozens of people on a nearby island before surrendering to police. A vivid new book tells the whole story of the victims - and the killer
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