Small in the Distance
/a poem
Read MoreA Moon, A Girl … Romance!
/Sure, we all know Superman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man - but what about the also-rans? Who played the Captain and Tennille to the Avengers' Sonny and Cher? Zach Rabiroff looks at the heroes who didn't quite make the prime-time cut.
Read MoreAll Our Revels Ended
/For decades, famed academic and critic Harold Bloom has been tilting against the windmills of cultural fads and forgettings. But in his latest (and last?) book, he strikes a different pose.
Read MoreEntire Lost Silence Drifts
/a poem
Read MoreCaved-in and Chopfallen
/The brutal realities of the urban landscape are both indicted and illuminated in the paintings of Jerome Witkin. Brett Busang examines the life and work of this inner city Canaletto.
Read MorePoor People are Like Oysters: The Life of Giovanni Verga
/Most people today know him only from the libretto of one short opera, but in his own day, he was a famous poet, playwright, and scholar - and a compulsive litigant. Luciano Mangiafico looks at the life of Giovanni Verga.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Trust is the mother of deceit”
/A trio of mysteries cum thrillers from Stephen King, Peter Lovesey, and Mike Lawson—each one in its own way stylish, suspenseful, and sharp.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: A Legacy
/Sybille Bedford's great novel - now in a pretty reprint from the New York Review of Books - has the sweep of Edward Gibbon and the emotional vitality of Jane Austen. Robert Minto takes a new look at a classic.
Read MoreBook Review: People of the Songtrail
/Fifteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of northeastern Canada encounter intruders from over the sea: Vikings
Read MoreBook Review: The Melody Lingers On
/A rich investment swindler disappears on his boat - and with a great chunk of his ill-gotten gains - and the plot is afoot in the latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark
Read MoreBook Review: Domesticated
/Tens of thousands of years ago, humans domesticated canines and thereby changed the dynamics of life on earth - a change humanity then continued by domesticating other species. A fascinating new book details the process
Read MoreBook Review: The Upright Thinkers
/Millions of years ago, hominids began walking upright - thus expanding their field of view and freeing their hands for mischief and took-making. A new book celebrates the result.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Human Universe
/Now in paperback in the US: the companion book to the popular BBC science program hosted by physicist Brian Cox
Read MoreJames Horner
/James Horner
Read MoreBook Review: Byron's Letters & Journals
/Byron the poet was also Byron the prolific correspondent and diarist, as a generous and learned new collection amply demonstrates
Read MoreBook Review: How Britain Saved the West
/For a key interval in 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany at its peak - and that familiar story of determination and ultimate victory is the subject of Robin Prior's new book
Read MoreBook Review: The World Beyond Your Head
/The "ecologies of attention and action" form the dynamic heart of philosopher Matthew Crawford's new book. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Change
/In a generous new anthology, a group of talented authors tells stories set in the "Emberverse" of S. M. Stirling - an Earth where all technology has abruptly stopped working
Read MoreBook Review: Margaret of Anjou
/In Iggulden's ongoing series about the Wars of the Roses, England's Queen Margaret struggles to hold onto her power - and her life - even as her husband the king slips in and out of sanity
Read MoreBook Review: In the Unlikely Event
/A New Jersey town repeatedly struck by falling planes is the setting for Judy Blume's new book
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