Book Review: Whirlwind
/John Ferling, great historian of 18th century America, here tells the story of the American Revolution itself, in typically riveting fashion
Read MoreBook Review: The Vorrh
/At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Onward and Upward in the Garden
/The quintessential modern classic of gardening-literature gets a very nice reprint
Read MoreBook Review: A Buzz in the Meadow
/A nature enthusiast looks at the countless little lives taking place on his small rural French meadow-farm
Read MoreBook Review: Theatre of the Unimpressed
/A wunderkind of the Canadian theater world writes an impassioned manifesto about everything that's wrong with the theater world - with better results than you'd expect
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Cyriac of Ancona
/During the Italian Renaissance, one enterprising autodidact took it upon himself to track down and transcribe as many inscriptions from the ancient world as he could find
Read MoreBook Review: Colossus
/An Indian driver and his enormous war-elephant experience the treacheries and triumphs of Alexander the Great's Babylon campaign
Read MoreBook Review: Cursed Victory
/A noted Israeli scholar and 'refusnik' writes a reserved and thorough history of the occupied territories
Read MoreBook Review: Note Book
/The popular Facebook-poster Jeff Nunokawa now has a book collecting his highlights
Read MoreBook Review: Corsair
/In the new novel from James Cambias, a space pirate in the near future - and the enforcer hunting him - encounter something neither one expects
Read MoreBook Review: John Knox
/The firebrand preacher and founder of the Presbyterian denomination is the subject of a masterful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: When the Heavens Fall
/When a renegade mage steals a powerful book of sorcery, the world of Marc Turner's fantasy debut is plunged into a disturbing new form of warfare
Read MoreBook Review: JFK and LBJ - The Last Two Great Presidents
/A former British White House correspondent looks back half a century at the two titans who ruled a now-vanished Washington
Read MoreBook Review: Faith vs. Fact
/Religion and science - the so-called "non-overlapping magisteria" - are actually deeply adversarial, writes "Why Evolution is True" author Jerry Coyne
Read MoreThe 69th Annual Edgar Awards
/Crime columnist Irma Heldman reports on the winners, the sinners, and the dinner at the 2015 Edgar Awards
Read MoreBook Review: You Will Never Find Me
/Charles Boxer and Mercy Danquah are both kidnap specialists who've solved many tough cases. But in their latest, the missing person is their own daughter - and she doesn't want to be found
Read MoreBook Review: The Constitution - An Introduction
/The US Constitution - the oldest in the world - gets a comprehensive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Death's Head Chess Club
/Two men meet by chance in a 1960s cafe - and remember a time twenty years earlier when they were captor and prisoner at Auschwitz
Read MoreBook Review: Vanishing
/Is the artist painting heath landscapes in England during World War II a mild-mannered hero of military campaigns or a spy? Gerard Woodward's spellbinding novel starts there and then travels over the whole of an improbable life story
Read MoreBook Review: Where I'm Reading From
/The Tim Parks essays collected in this pretty volume range over the whole landscape of the book-world, from endangered copyright to foreign-lit chic to the inescapability of Jonathan Franzen
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