Book Review: From Pompeii
/Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two most famous lost cities of the ancient world, had a long and vivid afterlife in culture and literature, as Ingrid Rowland's insightful new book describes
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Pompeii and Herculaneum, the two most famous lost cities of the ancient world, had a long and vivid afterlife in culture and literature, as Ingrid Rowland's insightful new book describes
Read MoreThe darkly iconic Last Stand of George Armstrong Custer receives an exuberantly detailed new account
Read MoreIn Nevada Barr's latest thriller, her indefatigable main character must track a group of hired killers through the wilderness in order to save their hostages
Read MoreThe world's smallest and busiest birds are the subject of a pretty new book
Read MoreIn Elisabeth Gifford's impressive debut, two couples, separated by a century, each confront Scotland's legends of the seal-folk.
Read MoreThe famous clerical martyr to the Nazi regime is the subject of a powerful new biography
Read MoreThe notorious Duke Lacrosse rape case - and its tawdry aftermath - is the subject of a veteran journalist's big new book
Read MoreA fascinating new book looks at the long political and historical writings of the author of "The Prince"
Read MoreA splendidly brainy new intellectual biography gives us the mind-life of the great orator, writer, and parliamentarian Edmund Burke
Read MoreJane Austen's posthumous send-up of Gothic novels (and their breathless readers) gets a lavish annotated edition
Read MoreThrough the eyes of an assistant, a new novel by an American master shows us the life and torturous loves of the great Renaissance artist Donatello
Read MoreThe beautiful Galapagos islands - home to finches, tortoises, and active magma - are the subject of a delightful new study
Read MoreThe first and most famous serial killer of the modern era killed five women in 1888 London - but did Jack the Ripper's crimes start there? And did they end there? The two greatest "Ripperologists" make the case for a killer's forgotten victims
Read MoreThat sleek and elegant diving-bird, the double-crested cormorant, faces deep-seated prejudices - and disastrous legal measures - in North America, its ancestral home
Read MoreA fantastic British boarding-school novel from another age gets a pretty reprint
Read MoreCultured, erudite, and passionate, Louisa Catherine Adams had a long and fascinating life as wife to John Quincy Adams on the road to the presidency, and that life at long last has a superb biography
Read MoreRobert Graves lived to be 90.
Read MoreDeep in the Brazilian wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt and his son encounter a mysterious beast who kills without leaving any tracks
Read MoreA bookseller's daughter, a mad alchemist Medici prince, and a heroic Cornishman move the plot of Elizabeth Loupas's hugely enjoyable new historical novel
Read MoreIdealistic young Mary Shelton finds love at the Tudor Court - but it's not the love her Queen has chosen for her
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