Book Review: Dublin - The Making of a Capital City
/David Dickson's comprehensively researched, readable book details the long and complicated history of Dublin
Read MoreBook Review: American Apocalypse
/A new history presents a history of 20th-Century American radical evangelism that will go down very well on the Liberty University campus
Read MoreBook Review: Snow and Steel
/The bloodiest American encounter of the Second World War took place in a vast and icebound forest; a sprawling new history tells the story of the Battle of the Bulge
Read MoreBook Review: Enter Pale Death
/An enormous, bad-tempered horse tramples to death the wife of its aristocratic owner - but Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard comes to suspect foul play in Barbara Cleverly's new mystery
Read MoreBook Review: Renegade Revolutionary
/He was ugly, ill-dressed, and eccentrically fond of dogs - but he was also the most experienced military man in the American colonies, restlessly chaffing under the command of George Washington. He was General Charles Lee, and a wonderful new book tells his story.
Read MoreBook Review: Chaucer's Tale
/Long before he would be venerated as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer had a really, really bad year. An engaging new book tells the story of how he coped - and the great work that followed.
Read MoreBook Review: The Life of Roman Republicanism
/A new book looks at the writings of Cicero, Sallust, and Horace to understand the mind of their times.
Read MoreBook Review: Massacre
/In 1871, thousands of aggrieved Parisians banded together to create an independent socialist community lodged inside their home city, and it functioned as a living dream - until it was brutally destroyed. A new book tells the story of the Paris Commune.
Read MoreStar Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise
/An older Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise-A voyage to the edge of the Federation to help two warring planets make peace - and there they encounter a long-lost figure from their past
Read MoreJames Wood and the Fall of Man
/Book critic James Wood is a fascinating collection of contradictions: an apostate true believer, a champion of experimental fiction, an earnest searcher in empty temples. Sam Sacks reads one of our foremost readers.
Read MoreA Long Time in the Making
/Nora Webster may be Colm Tóibín’s slightest novel yet, but his later novels are born from and echo this wise and intimate investigation of the interior life.
Read MorePointez, Pointez!
/Hugely talented biographer Andrew Roberts has written a big biography of Napoleon Bonaparte - but when it comes to such a well-known figure, are readers in danger of fatigue de bataille?
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2014
/Our unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreDouble Consciousness
/Literature by post-Yugoslavian writers is often about identity in flux. That includes the books of David Albahari, one of the most widely read of contemporary Serbian authors and one of the most worth reading.
Read MoreSomething Beyond the Chaos
/The author made immortal by the novel Dune also wrote a career's worth of short stories. Robert Minto looks at the first-ever complete collection of those stories.
Read MoreUnwise Counsel
/Leon Panetta, old Washington fixture and former member of the Obama administration, criticizes the president in his new memoir. But does he have anything to say?
Read MoreAn Interview with Katy Bohinc
/Maureen Thorson interviews Katy Bohinc, poet and author of Dear Alain.
Read More#NotAllNazis
/What would you do if your artistic survival suddenly depended on the whims of a brutal dictatorship? How far would you compromise? How much would you risk? A new book studies artists in the Third Reich.
Read MoreCabin with Porthole
/a poem
Read MoreThe Fighter
/Norman Mailer was as fiery and mercurial a letter-writer as he was a novelist and journalist - and ten times as prolific. A big new volume collects the highlights of a lifetime in the post.
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