Book Review: American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
/American senator, author, and statesman Daniel Patrick Moynihan's complex and constantly-evolving political philosophy is the subject of a pointed new book
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/Can you improve on a classic? A new novel retells George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda — but much more is lost than gained in the attempt.
Read MoreBook Review: Washington's Circle
/A fantastic new book tells the story of President Washington and the extraordinary team he assembled to form the new nation's first administration
Read MoreBook Review: Galileo's Telescope
/One little spyglass - only four fingers long - changed the world; a sparkling new book tells the story of Galileo's "recounting of the stars"
Read MoreBook Review: Ravensbruck
/In 1939 the Nazis established their only concentration camp specifically for women; a comprehensive new book tells the history of Ravensbruck
Read MoreBook Review: We All Looked Up
/The high school students in Tommy Wallach's fantastic debut face more than graduation and an uncertain job market: they face an honest-to-gosh killer asteroid
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Trial
/From Lizzie Borden to O. J. Simpson, big public show-trials have fascinated the American people. In his new book, renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman tries to dissect why that is.
Read MoreBook Review: The Architect's Apprentice
/A young boy and his gorgeous white elephant become apprenticed to the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire in this stunning new novel by the author of "The Bastard of Istanbul"
Read MoreBook Review: On Elizabeth Bishop
/In the latest Princeton "Writers on Writers" installment, novelist Colm Toibin writes about poet Elizabeth Bishop
Read MoreBook Review: Duplicity
/In N. K. Traver's exciting debut, a young cyber-hacker finds his life steadily being commandeered - but his own reflection in the mirror.
Read MoreBook Review: Notes from a Dead House
/Dostoevsky's great semi-fictionalized prison memoir gets a sterling new translation from the superstar team of Pevear and Volokhonsky
Read MoreBook Review: Young Eliot
/A lavishly-detailed new biography shows us Thomas Stearns Eliot in his slightly fussy, slightly feckless pre-fame years
Read MoreBook Review: The Fortunes of Francis Barber
/One of the only two people at the deathbed of Samuel Johnson was a young ex-slave to whom Johnson was, in his testy way, devoted. A new book finally gives Francis Barber the biography he's always deserved
Read MoreBook Review: Plato's Wayward Path
/Plato might be Western philosophy's first great writer, but a new book argues we've mostly been reading him wrong.
Read MoreBook Review: What Stands in a Storm
/A new book details the terrible destruction caused by a record-breaking series of tornadoes that struck the American South in 2011
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifth Heart
/In Dan Simmons' latest fantastic novel, Henry James finds himself teamed up with fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, in order to solve a very real - and very heartbreaking - mystery.
Read MoreBook Review: The War That Used Up Words
/At the outbreak of the First World War, American writers flocked to Europe and headed for the Western Front in order to find their Muse - and to make some quick cash. A new book follows a handful of these earliest chroniclers
Read MoreBook Review: Akhenaten & The Origins of Monotheism
/The rebel pharaoh who instituted a radical new monotheism gets a highly-detailed and revisionist investigation
Read MoreBook Review: The Wide World's End
/In the concluding volume of James Enge's gripping fantasy trilogy, a band of unlikely heroes is caught between warring godlike beings in a world quickly tearing itself apart
Read MoreBook Review: Hissing Cousins
/The daughter of the first President Roosevelt and the wife of the second President Roosevelt had a long and sometimes cross-purposed relationship. A new book dishes the old dirt.
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