Book Review: Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Major Poetry
/A thorough new study of the poetry of the great transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read MoreBook Review: Renishaw Hall
/The great home of generations of the Sitwell family, Renishaw Hall, is the subject of Desmond Seward's latest book
Read MoreBook Review: The Storms of War
/In historian Kate Williams' new novel, a wealthy family in England confronts the realities of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Monsters
/The bad science behind the Hindenburg was made tragically obvious by its explosion in 1937; a new book warns that other miracles of science may be equally dangerous
Read MoreBook Review: Word by Word
/A new book assembles and studies the scattered writings of American slaves
Read MoreBook Review: The Invention of Nature
/The great German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt was fascinated by all of the natural world, and his work in studying it and writing about it has shaped our understanding ever since
Read MoreBook Review: Black Earth
/A harrowing and contentious new assessment of the Nazi war on the Jews of Europe.
Read MoreBook Review: I Can Give You Anything But Love
/A witty, unsparing memoir from author and critic Gary Indiana
Read MoreBook Review: A Clue to the Exit
/A sarcastic screenwriter learns he has only six months to live in this reprinted novel from Edward St. Aubyn from 2000
Read MoreBook Review: The Desert and the Blade
/In the latest chapter of S. M. Stirling's "Emberverse" series, two courageous women embark on a quest for a supernatural sword
Read MoreBook Review: Sorcerer to the Crown
/In Zen Cho's exuberant debut, the magic of Napoleonic-era England is slowly dwindling, and it's up to the Sorcerer Royal to figure out why
Read MoreBook Review: Snowden
/The life of infamous NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, in comic book form
Read MoreBook Review: Self and Soul
/A spirited defense of humanist intangibles in a culture obsessed with material gain
Read MoreBook Review: A River Runs Again
/The huge environmental problems facing India form the backdrop for Meera Subramanian's fantastic first book
Read MoreBook Review: The Gates of Evangeline
/A mother grieving the loss of her own son investigates the 30-year-old disappearance of a powerful Southern family's little boy in this haunting debut
Read MoreRomancing the Convention
/Think romance novels aren’t worth taking seriously? The Romance Writers of America's annual convention brings together thousands of smart, self-aware readers and writers ready and able to prove you wrong.
Read MoreOn Venusberg by Anthony Powell
/Anthony Powell's name is synonymous with his twelve-volume behemoth "A Dance to the Music of Time." But he had a long and varied writing career, and his early novel Venusberg, Levi Stahl contends, is well worth searching out in the shade of "Dance."
Read More“I am eager to play chess – I have mastered nine skills”
/At the beginning of the 19th century, a small trove of elaboratedly carved chess pieces was uncovered on a remote beach - a lively new book traces the history and strange charisma of the Lewis chessmen.
Read MoreFosse's Dark Vision
/Director Bob Fosse dreamed that his 1983 movie Star 80 would put him in the front ranks of Hollywood, but what resulted was both stranger and - our reviewer urges - more powerful than it first seemed.
Read MoreCottonwoods
/a poem
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