Book Review: Under Tiberius
/In a dusty Vatican archive, an ancient manuscript is found that could change the world. Or whatever.
Read MoreBook Review: No. 4 Imperial Lane
/The woes of empire and the decline of the aristocracy form the backdrop for Jonathan Weisman's smart and moving debut novel, set in Thatcher's England.
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Tsarist Russia
/A powerful new book by one of our best historians examines from new sources the torturous path Russia took to the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Still Life Las Vegas
/In this funny and touching debut, a young man's search for his missing mother leads to unexpected discoveries amid the lights of Las Vegas
Read MoreBook Review: The Madagaskar Plan
/In an alternate history in which an undefeated Nazi Germany controls vast portions of Africa, a cast of old friends and enemies come together amid rumors of a devastating new kind of bomb ...
Read MoreBook Review: Latest Readings
/Ailing cultural critic Clive James turns in what may very well be his final collection of essays. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Red
/The hero of Linda Nagata's nifty new series is hard-wired to his battle-armor ... but is something else hiding in the connection?
Read MoreBook Review: Moral Agents
/A collection of profiles of eight pivotal American literary men of the 20th century - Robert Minto reviews
Read MoreBook Review: Under Another Sky
/Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Pedigree
/Yale University Press publishes a 2005 memoir by the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
Read MoreBook Review: Ashoka in Ancient India
/The great ancient Indian emperor Ashoka gets a splendid new biography that attempts to divine the man at the heart of the legend
Read MoreBook Review: The Poetry of John Milton
/A sumptuous new book studies the work of one of the English language's greatest poets. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Barbarian Days
/Veteran New Yorker writer William Finnegan has written a captivating memoir of surfing and growing up
Read MoreBook Review: The Dinosaur Lords
/On the world of Paradise, the wars of dynasties are fought on battlefields by knights mounted on dinosaurs
Read MoreBook Review: Voices in the Ocean
/A lively new book explores the minds and behaviors of many of Earth's cetaceans
Read MoreBook Review: The President and the Apprentice
/The settled opinion of historians has always been that President Eisenhower personally hated his vice president, Richard Nixon; a vigorous, unmissable new book tries to set that record straight
Read MoreBook Review: Hirohito's War
/A massive new history details the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII
Read MoreBook Review: Where Are My Books?
/One by one, young Spencer's books are disappearing at night - can he figure out where they're going before they're all gone?
Read MoreBook Review: The Meaning of the Library
/A new book celebrating the library's thousands of years of history and constantly-changing cultural role is filled with sharp essays
Read MoreBook Review: Voltaire's Revolution
/For the better part of a century, Voltaire waged a sometimes solitary battle against the iniquities of organized religion. A great new book brings together fresh translations of some of the philosopher's most biting works.
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