Book Review: "Forward, My Brave Boys!"
/A richly-detailed new history traces one Confederate volunteer infantry through the course of the Civil War
Read MoreBook Review: The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
/According to one historian, the battle commemorated in a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci was the little-known birth-moment of the Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: Reading The Tale of Genji
/The Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreBook Review: The Iran-Iraq War
/The brutal 1980s war between Iran and Iraq gets a definitive new history
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2015
/In the course of the year, many, many books cross the paths of OLM's editors, and the end of the year is a natural time for reflecting on that endless stream. Our editors each pick a book from their year-in-reading that stood out from the rest.
Read MoreMe Am Your Smallest Fan
/Long, long before Superman appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, human folklore was rife with super-beings. A new book takes a look at the more-than-human.
Read MoreIn Defense of Makeup
/Lisa Eldridge, in her new book Face Paint, traces the long and surprisingly volatile history of makeup. Jane Shmidt reviews.
Read More'Tis the Season
/Years after the "New Atheism" heyday, a new book by an old hand takes up the atheist cause with renewed urgency.
Read MoreThe Cultural Regressives
/In the summer of 2014, the so-called "Gamergate" controversy convulsed the world of online video gaming, raising issues of sexism and political correctness that still rage today. Phillip Lobo tries to look at the big picture.
Read MoreIf Only Historians Could Write Like Him Now!” The Art and Legacy of Edward Gibbon
/"Always scribble, scribble, scribble!" the King joked to the historian, and we remember it still; Luciano Mangiafico looks at the remarkable life of Edward Gibbon.
Read MorePen and Tell Her
/Elizabeth Gilbert wants you to be creative, without fear. Whatever brings you to life, whether it’s learning a dance, writing a song, or drawing on the wall, just do it! But what if you want to review her book?
Read MoreBook Review: In Winter's Kitchen
/A family from New Jersey moves to the wilds of Minnesota and learns a whole new way to think about food
Read MoreBook Review: Augustine
/A sumptuous new book traces the long and complicated path St. Augustine took to reach his famous "Confessions"
Read MoreBook Review: Battling the Gods
/The open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief
Read MoreBook Review: Russell Kirk
/A big and colorful new biography of modern conservatism's larger-than-life ideological godfather
Read MoreBook Review: The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer
/A penetrating - and bitterly timely - book about the 2011 killing rampage of Anders Behring Breivik
Read MoreBook Review: The English and Their History
/A huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people
Read MoreBook Review: London Fog
/For centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.
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