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/"A Year with the Tudors II" continues with a comprehensive new biography of King Henry VIII's fifth wife, the flighty teenager Catherine Howard.
Read MorePepys & Co.
/In his latest installment of the Time Traveler’s Guide series, Ian Mortimer bids farewell to the last traces of the medieval world and embraces the coming tide of modernity.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: A Flash, a Thud, a Crimson Deluge
/Poor innocent Lady Jane Grey has been an ostentatious martyr to the Protestant cause for centuries; a new book tells her brief but familiar life story as continues.
Read MoreJubilant Cosmos
/The inimitable and meteoric Margaret Cavendish is the subject of a captivating new historical novel by Danielle Dutton.
Read More“In Some Bright Place”
/Storyteller George Saunders has written his first novel. Lincoln in Bardo hits many of the old, familiar notes, but there is something new and unexpected as well.
Read MoreRacing Toward Mytilene
/Two and a half millennia ago, a war between Athens and Sparta drove Greek civilization to its knees. A new book explores what demagogues and democracies can teach us about the fall of nations.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: Have You Heard It?
/A new book on the famous Tudor dynasty promises that most alluring of all perspectives on royalty: the back-stage details. But can it succeed? A Year with the Tudors continues.
Read MoreBook Review: The Egyptians
/The Egyptian Revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath forms the subject of a riveting new book by a journalist and keen-eyed witness.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: “You Are My Grace”
/Jane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreLove In Every Stitch
/A fascinating book explores the relationship between necessity and love in military knitting across the ages.
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreBodies in Trouble
/A new novel about a notorious Viennese clinic aims to do justice to the lives of those the Nazis declared were utterly without value.
Read MoreMore sayable than you think
/Carolin Emcke, a German social critic, continues the debate: does the holocaust demand silence? Andrew Brower Latz reviews.
Read MoreThe Ground Beneath Their Feet
/The promise and the limits of the Arab Spring receive some well-written - and necessarily sobering - reporting in Robert Worth's A Rage for Order. Greg Waldmann reviews.
Read MoreOut of Some Bygone Era
/Master stylist Donald Ray Pollock returns in a violent, beautifullly-written novel about three brothers on a murderous rampage. Aaron Botwick reviews The Heavenly Table
Read MoreKindling the Mob
/A new biography tells the fascinating story of anarchist poet Lola Ridge, long overlooked by a critical culture that considered politics antithetical to literature. Laura Tanenbaum reviews.
Read MoreLet's All Meet at the Mahalalel Mall
/A thorough and even-handed new book gives readers a tour of the "Creation Museum" in Kentucky - and warns not to dismiss its dangers too readily.
Read MoreThe Smooth Handle
/Did Thomas Jefferson love his slave, the mother of his children Sally Hemings? A new novel asks the question factually and counterfactually, and Kenyon Gradert sums up the results.
Read MoreWhy Don’t You Both Shut Up?
/In the United States in the last few decades, issues of free speech have drifted closer and closer to the heart of American life. A new book analyzes a right too many Americans take for granted.
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