A sumptuous new book traces the long and complicated path St. Augustine took to reach his famous "Confessions"

The open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief

A big and colorful new biography of modern conservatism's larger-than-life ideological godfather

A penetrating - and bitterly timely - book about the 2011 killing rampage of Anders Behring Breivik

A huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people

For centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.

A stirring account of one wild family of critically-endangered Siberian tigers

The in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!

A fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries