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
Read MoreBook Review: The Fights on the Little Horn
/The darkly iconic Last Stand of George Armstrong Custer receives an exuberantly detailed new account
Read MoreBook Review: Destroying Angel
/In 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 MoreBook Review: Hummingbirds
/The world's smallest and busiest birds are the subject of a pretty new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Sea House
/In Elisabeth Gifford's impressive debut, two couples, separated by a century, each confront Scotland's legends of the seal-folk.
Read MoreBook Review: Strange Glory
/The famous clerical martyr to the Nazi regime is the subject of a powerful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Price of Silence
/The notorious Duke Lacrosse rape case - and its tawdry aftermath - is the subject of a veteran journalist's big new book
Read MoreBook Review: A Great & Wretched City
/A fascinating new book looks at the long political and historical writings of the author of "The Prince"
Read MoreBook Review: The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
/A splendidly brainy new intellectual biography gives us the mind-life of the great orator, writer, and parliamentarian Edmund Burke
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Northanger Abbey
/Jane Austen's posthumous send-up of Gothic novels (and their breathless readers) gets a lavish annotated edition
Read MoreBook Review: The Medici Boy
/Through 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 MoreBook Review: The Galapagos
/The beautiful Galapagos islands - home to finches, tortoises, and active magma - are the subject of a delightful new study
Read MoreBook Review: Jack the Ripper - The Forgotten Victims
/The 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 MoreBook Review: The Double-Crested Cormorant
/That sleek and elegant diving-bird, the double-crested cormorant, faces deep-seated prejudices - and disastrous legal measures - in North America, its ancestral home
Read MoreBook Review: Lord Dismiss Us
/A fantastic British boarding-school novel from another age gets a pretty reprint
Read MoreBook Review: Louisa Catherine - The Other Mrs. Adams
/Cultured, 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 MoreBook Review: Wilfred Owen
/Robert Graves lived to be 90.
Read MoreBook Review: Roosevelt's Beast
/Deep in the Brazilian wilderness, Theodore Roosevelt and his son encounter a mysterious beast who kills without leaving any tracks
Read MoreBook Review: The Red Lily Crown
/A 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 MoreBook Review: Queen Elizabeth's Daughter
/Idealistic 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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