Book Review: Part of Our Lives
/A wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States
Read MoreBook Review: Evolution - The Whole Story
/A gorgeously-illustrated new book looks at the long and gaudy history of life on Earth
Read MoreBook Review: After Hitler
/A forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich
Read MoreBook Review: The German War
/A new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Germany
/An ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way
Read MoreBook Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe
/A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
Read MoreBook Review: Xerxes
/The great Persian King Xerxes gets a wonderfully sharp and detailed biography for Western readers
Read MoreBook Review: Winston Churchill Reporting
/While a young Winston Churchill was making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire, he was also reporting on himself making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire. A new book tells the old story.
Read MoreBook Review: King John
/On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a spirited new biography looks at King John
Read MoreBook Review: The Year of Lear
/A new book looks at one tumultuous year in the life of William Shakespeare
Read MoreBook Review: Hell's Foundations Quiver
/In the latest of David Weber's "Safehold" novels, Industrial-Age technology is coming to a quasi-Renaissance world, ready or not
Read MoreBook Review: Cleopatra's Shadows
/An effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters
Read MoreBook Review: Napoleon - Soldier of Destiny
/The first volume of Michael Broers' new Napoleon biography follows its famous subject from obscure Corsican boyhood to the stage of world-wide fame.
Read MoreBook Review: The Emperor of Water Clocks
/A grand and jauntily mythological new volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning Yusef Komunyakaa
Read MoreBook Review: The Story of My Teeth
/Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth tells of the fantastical life of Gustavo "Highway" Sánchez Sánchez, the self-proclaimed best auctioneer in the world, and a great collector of teeth and their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
/A big new volume commemorates a century of "Best American Short Stories," which began - as with all worthy things - in Boston a long time ago
Read MoreBook Review: The Secret Chord
/The author of such brilliant novels as "Year of Wonders" and "March" takes on the Biblical story of King David
Read MoreBook Review: The Ville Rat
/The odd couple military police sergeants Sueno and Bascom return in Martin Limon's gripping new mystery set in 1970s Korea
Read MoreBook Review: The Dogist
/Armed with camera and tennis balls, a young photographer takes informal portraits of the dogs he meets. The Instagram sensation "The Dogist" is now a book.
Read MoreOpen Letters Bestseller List Feature 2015
/The Open Letters team of writers and editors divvies up the Fiction list of the venerable New York Times bestseller list and dives right in - with decidedly mixed reactions.
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