Book 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: Princes at War
/A chatty, vivacious new book tracks the four sons of the Royal House of Windsor during the years of World War Two
Read MoreBook Review: Lucky Alan and Other Stories
/Jonathan Lethem's latest book continues his project of combining the literary and the pulpy - Robert Minto reviews.
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: How To Carry Bigfoot Home
/Giant eels, dragon-scammers, and of course Sasquatch himself feature in Chris Tarry's delightfully gonzo debut short story collection
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream Lover
/The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel
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: The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
/In the dystopian future of Jeffrey Rotter's fantastic novel, Copernican astronomy has been forgotten - but its secrets lie buried under what was once Florida
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: Lurid & Cute
/The main character of Adam Thirlwell's new novel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever - and he's sinfully easy to read about
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 MoreProtean Things
/Hilary Mantel's best-selling Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, have made their way to the stage on the expert handling of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Zach Rabiroff had front row center.
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