Book Reivew: Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War
/Max Planck, the great physicist and father of quantum theory, gets a marvelous and empathetic new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
/A new biography takes advantage of recently-opened Soviet archives
Read MoreBook Review: Infamy
/In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States summarily imprisoned thousands of its Japanese citizens for the duration of the war. Richard Reeves' passionate new book tells the story
Read MoreBook Review: In These Times
/Jenny Uglow's new book goes into lively detail about how ordinary people in Britain experienced the cataclysmic events of the wars of the Napoleonic era
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
/Author Thom Hatch promises mind-blowing new revelations in his book on the Battle of Little Bighorn. And in other news, Rutherford B. Hayes is rumored to be contemplating a run for president.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Saved by the Sea
/In his moving account, now in paperback from New World Library, David Helvarg recounts the wonders and wealth of the world's oceans
Read MoreBook Review: Of Noble Family
/Mary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
/Cuckoos use other species of birds to raise the young they abandon, and they've been doing it for thousands of years without getting arrested. An absorbing new book isn't precisely rooting for them, but still ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Intimate Bond
/An extremely winning new book explores the enormous ways eight particular animal kinds have altered the course of human life on Earth
Read MoreBook Review: Dead Wake
/One hundred years ago, a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania, with grievous loss of civilian life. The anniversary is observed by one of our best popular historians
Read MoreBook Review: Princes at War
/A chatty, vivacious new book tracks the four sons of the Royal House of Windsor during the years of World War Two
Read MoreBook Review: Lucky Alan and Other Stories
/Jonathan Lethem's latest book continues his project of combining the literary and the pulpy - Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Fortune's Fool
/The latest full-dress biography of John Wilkes Booth seeks to get at the flesh-and-blood man beneath the monster
Read MoreBook Review: How To Carry Bigfoot Home
/Giant eels, dragon-scammers, and of course Sasquatch himself feature in Chris Tarry's delightfully gonzo debut short story collection
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream Lover
/The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hell from the Heavens
/In April of 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was bombarded by wave after wave of kamikaze fighters - and yet survived. A gripping new book tells the story of a ship that refused to die
Read MoreBook Review: The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
/In the dystopian future of Jeffrey Rotter's fantastic novel, Copernican astronomy has been forgotten - but its secrets lie buried under what was once Florida
Read MoreBook Review: "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else"
/In time for the hundred-year anniversary of the Ottoman killing of over a million Armenians, a gripping new history tells the whole story of the tragedy
Read MoreBook Review: Lurid & Cute
/The main character of Adam Thirlwell's new novel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever - and he's sinfully easy to read about
Read MoreBook Review: Their Last Full Measure
/The tense and frantic final months of the American Civil War forms the backdrop for Joseph Wheelan's lively new book
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