Book Review: Great Soul of Siberia
/A stirring account of one wild family of critically-endangered Siberian tigers
Read MoreBook Review: City on a Grid
/The in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!
Read MoreBook Review: The Work of the Dead
/A fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries
Read MoreFriends on the Patio
/Essayist, critic, novelist, and public gadfly: Gore Vidal's long career took many forms and sprang from a life as dramatic as his work. Has that life finally found a biography to do it justice?
Read MoreGenerals in Dark and Snow
/Late in 1944, the defeated Nazis staked everything on one last throw of the dice, a massive assault on the Allied forces in Belgium. Antony Beevor's latest book tells the famous story of the Battle of the Bulge.
Read MorePilgrimages to Paris
/What is the allure of famous cemeteries like Paris’s Père Lachaise? Perhaps the crowds – of graves, and of visitors – reassure us that even in death we won’t really be alone.
Read MoreNever Have Hands Been So Vital to a Creature
/In Zachary Thomas Dodson's visionary and inventive debut novel, a violent past and a dystopian future are woven together into a tale of families, legacies ... and bats. Justin Hickey reviews Bats of the Republic.
Read Morered moon night
/a poem
Read MoreBanksy’s World
/An insurgent graffiti artist becomes an art house favorite and recognized brand; Jared Pollen explores the many-layered ironies of Banksy's world.
Read MoreInsurrections of the Bland
/The New Republic once embodied a vibrant, eclectic liberalism. A new anthology inadvertently tells a depressing story about the decline of that vision.
Read MoreThe Broken Clock
/Controversial former Vice President Dick Cheney and his journalist daughter Liz have written a book claiming that the exceptional nature of American power is being sullied and squandered by the current occupant of the White House. Greg Waldmann reviews Exceptional.
Read MoreNo Laughing Matter
/In Timur Vermes’s bestselling novel, newly translated from the German, it’s 2011, the Führer is back, and he’s not happy at how the world has changed. Is it OK to find that funny?
Read MoreConspicuous Obscurity
/Joshua Harmon's new collection, The Annotated Mixtape, bills itself as a set of learned and personal liner notes. It is that, but, alas says our reviewer, that isn't all that it is.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “The civilized people in the world are the most dangerous people on earth.”
/A Banquet of Consequences is an elegant addition to Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. Bernard Minier’s mesmerizing The Circle more than fulfills the promise of last year’s auspicious debut The Frozen Dead. And Felix Francis just keeps getting better as he proves with Front Runner.
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreLisa Jardine
/Lisa Jardine
Read MoreBook Review: Magna Carta
/A slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter
Read MoreMaureen O'Hara
/Maureen O'Hara
Read MoreBook Review: Keeping An Eye On Art
/Novelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists
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