Book Review: Charles I & The People of England
/How did the dynamics of kingship apply to a distant and socially maladroit little creature like King Charles I? A terrific new book looks at personality and power in the Stuart era
Read MoreBook Review: Storm and Steel
/A former slave in a brutal empire is now wielding both political and magical power the second volume in Jon Sprunk's hugely enjoyable "Book of the Black Earth" series
Read MoreBook Review: Death and Mr. Pickwick
/An ambitious debut novel explores the world that gave birth to the meteoric career of Charles Dickens and his lesser-known competitors
Read MoreBook Review: Nixon's Nuclear Specter
/At the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: Yanks in the RAF
/While America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: Multitudinous Heart
/A sumptuous new bilingual edition of the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Read MoreBook Review: The Islanders
/A woman dies in Versailles, and her death sets in motion a tangled plot connecting a small group of people in this 2010 novel by Pascal Garnier
Read MoreBook Review: Bright Eyed
/A new memoir about sleeplessness - and the wired culture that seems to encourage it
Read MoreIn Paperback: Wildlife in the Anthropocene
/Now in paperback: a new rumination on the nature of the post-wildlife world mankind has built
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
/Hilary Mantel's two famous novels have fueled the centuries-old curiosity about King Henry VIII's notorious minister Thomas Cromwell: was he a saint, Satan, or a civil servant? A magnificent new study attempts to sift fact from fiction
Read MoreBook Review: The Wolf Border
/The effort of an eccentric earl to re-introduce wolves to England draws a zoologist back to the home she left years before
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfortunates
/The steely matriarch of a wealthy family is losing both her health and her control over her family in this sharp debut novel by Sophie McManus
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Literary Churchill
/Now in paperback, a groundbreaking study of Winston Churchill's life as a bestselling author, speechwriter, and speech performer
Read MoreBook Review: Watch the Lady
/Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare and the Countess
/The 1596 battle over Blackfriars Theatre was waged by a strong-willed Puritan woman who had a habit of picking fights, including with the Queen; a terrific new book tells the story at length for the first time
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington, Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace
/In time for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo comes the concluding volume in Rory Muir's magisterial biography of the battle's victor, the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreBook Review: Behind the Mask
/The enigmatic and compelling aristocratic author Vita Sackville-West is the subject of an approachable new biography
Read MoreThe Management of Savagery
/Many new books - some excellent, some awful - are now seeking to explain the terrorist group ISIS, but the group's own origins dynamics are dauntingly complex. Greg Waldmann tries to make sense of it all.
Read MoreFather Knows Best
/He shaped the morals and manners of a vast country and put an indelible stamp on the world's thinking, but he himself couldn't get the job he wanted. Robert Minto reviews a new history of Confucianism.
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