Book Review: The Two-State Delusion
/A veteran state conflict analyst looks at the mother of such conflicts: the long strife between Israel and Palestine
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Leaves Falling
/A teenager in Kyoto tries to face the last months of his life as a samurai would - with a little help from his friends
Read MoreBook Review: The Meursault Investigation
/The famous bloody encounter at the center of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger is re-imagined from a new perspective in Kamel Daoud's widely-praised debut
Read MoreBook Review: The Black Coat
/In the wake of Bangladesh's bloody Liberation War, a hapless nonentity suddenly finds himself impersonating a beloved national leader
Read MoreBook Review: Sicily
/Veteran historian John Julius Norwich attempts to cram over 800 years of Sicilian history into 300 pages - and because he's John Julius Norwich, he very nearly succeeds
Read MoreBook Review: The Fall
/Federal contractor Jack Taylor takes an unprecedented high-altitude space jump - but when he breaks the sound barrier and makes his landing, he finds himself in a different reality
Read MoreE. L. Doctorow
/E. L. Doctorow
Read MoreBook Review: Last First Snow
/In Max Gladstone's latest "Craft" sequence novel, what looks like a straightforward neighborhood gentrification suddenly threatens to unleash the wrath of the gods themselves
Read MoreInterview: Debut author Geoffrey Storm
/Debut author Geoffrey Storm started down the usual path - writing conferences, agents - but then decided to take the route so many new authors are taking and self-publish his first novel. He talks with Open Letters about that process.
Read MoreBook Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 2015
/The latest monumental anthology from Gardner Dozois of the best the sci-fi genre has to offer
Read MoreBook Review: Beyond Words
/In his beautifully-written new book, ecologist Carl Safina takes a broader look at the emotional and mental lives of nonhuman animals
Read MoreBook Review: In a Dark Wood
/A professor of Italian clings to Dante's Divine Comedy when confronted with an unthinkable tragedy in his own life
Read MoreBook Review: Joan of Arc
/The half-legendary Maid of Orleans gets a refreshingly wide-angled new history from Helen Castor
Read MoreBook Review: The Quiet Man
/A memoir of the first President Bush, written by his former Chief of Staff
Read MoreBook Review: Palimpsest
/In a mere 200 pages on the history of writing, Matthew Battles takes readers from ancient China and Sumeria to Gutenberg to - oh my, are we out of time already?
Read MoreBook Review: Wolves on the Hunt
/Far from the popular image of ravenous killing machines, wolves are actually surprisingly cautious predators who carefully weigh the risks they take, as a stunning new study illustrates
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Orbit
/A distant planet crackling with "dark energy" holds mind-boggling secrets for the crew of humans sent to explore it
Read MoreBook Review: Pretty Is
/Years ago, two young girls were abducted and held for two months by a mysterious stranger; in the present, in Maggie Mitchell's terrific debut novel, these women are now confronted with the suspicion that a part of their childhood ordeal is very much alive.
Read MoreBook Review: Last to Die
/Military historian Stephen Harding tells the poignant story of the last soldier killed in World War II
Read MoreRoger Rees
/Roger Rees
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