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Read MoreBook Review: Time Salvager
/In the future, a vast corporation sends operatives back in time to loot the past, and those operatives have one rule above all others: bring nobody back with you. When one of those operatives breaks that rule, Wesley Chu's novel takes off
Read MoreBook Review: The Lagoon
/When enigmatic aliens plunge down in the ocean off the coast of Nigeria, three very different humans encounter them - and watch as the world is changed forever
Read MoreBook Review: The Runes of Evolution
/Time and again in the history of life, environmental pressures and biological systems combine to produce the same adaptations in wildly different species and epochs. It's called convergent evolution, and Simon Conway Morris has written its grand opera.
Read MoreBook Review: The War at the Edge of the World
/A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The Captive Condition
/The forgotten Midwestern town of Normandy Falls becomes the setting for an increasingly horrifying - and surreal - series of events in Kevin Keating's outstanding new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hostile Takeover
/In "Hostile Takeover," Shane Kuhn provides a raucous follow-up to his popular novel "The Intern's Handbook"
Read MoreBook Review: The Insect Farm
/Two brothers - one simple-minded, the other quite possibly devious - are at the heart of Stuart Prebble's new thriller
Read MoreBook Review: The American Revolution
/Just in time for America's Independence Day, the Library of America presents its newest production: a two-volume collection of some of the pamphlets that so inflamed the colonial population in the decade leading up to the Revolution
Read MoreBook Review: The Summer of Good Intentions
/Three sisters and their various husbands and children gather at the family's inviting old Cape Cod vacation home, where they face drama, revelation, heartache, and maybe personal re-invention.
Read MoreBook Review: Newport
/A wealthy family in dazzling 1920s Newport, Rhode Island faces problems and revelations in both the material world of their huge estate - and also in the spirit world, where secrets will be revealed
Read MoreBook Review: The Exchange of Princesses
/In the early 1720s, the regent of France risked both his young king and his young daughter on high-stakes international gambles in the ongoing War of Succession; a sparkling new novel dramatizes the events
Read MoreBook Review: Primates of Park Avenue
/In Wednesday Martin's now-infamous scathing account, we learn the appalling personal details of the wives of Manhattan's rich and famous
Read MoreBook Review: The Duke's Assassin
/A brutal assassination in 1537 changed the course of Florentine history, and eleven years later, the assassin was himself murdered. Case closed? A fascinating new book thinks not!
Read MorePeer Review: Front Row Seats
/Biographer Zachary Leader takes his readers on a long, detailed tour of the first half of Saul Bellow's life, and while those readers may be loving it, the critics have been complaining!
Read MoreThe Whip Descends
/Why do we read the same story over and over? In Virginia Woolf's case, it's to learn again how great art emerged from her strange life of privilege and grief.
Read MoreAmerican Exceptional
/Adam Begley's long and exhaustive biography of iconic 20th century author John Updike reads like one long string of new books and new love affairs - but does it capture the man?
Read MoreSummer Reading 2015, Part 2
/Our Summer Reading feature continues...
Read MoreSteep, Bloody Engagements
/The success of the documentary Blackfish has thrown a spotlight on orcas not as the "killer" whales of the ocean but as victims; a dazzling new natural history broadens the picture to show us truly magnificent alien beings.
Read MoreThe Book and the Boy
/A thousand years ago, a refined lady at the Japanese Court wrote the first and one of the greatest novels of all time, The Tale of Genji; Dennis Washburn does the latest translation of this immense work, with stunning results.
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