Leonard Nimoy
/Leonard Nimoy
Read MoreBook Review: Killers of the King
/Under the direction of Oliver Cromwell, dozens of men deliberated to execute the captive King Charles I, and when Charles II came to power a decade later, those men were suddenly in the gravest danger. A fascinating new book tells their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: Shadow
/In the second volume of Will Elliott's fantastic "Pendulum" trilogy, a large and engaging cast of characters fight to survive in a world drastically out of balance
Read MoreBook Review: The Reagan Era
/A new book takes an intense look at the presidency of Ronald Reagan
Read MoreBook Review: Hereward - The End of Days
/Driven into hiding by the victorious forces of William the Conqueror, the heroic Hereward the Wake and his band of freedom fighters must struggle to survive
Read MoreBook Review: Peaks on the Horizon
/A gripping new book takes readers inside the fabled - and troubled - land of Tibet
Read MoreBook Review: American Reckoning
/A harrowing new book looks at the many spaces the Vietnam Was has occupied in the American mental landscape
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Empress
/A strong-willed Bavarian princess captures the eye of the young Austro-Hungarian emperor in Allison Pataki's opulent new historical novel. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: The Interstellar Age
/Nearly 40 years ago, the Voyager spacecraft left Earth bearing cameras to photograph the solar system - and messages of greetings to the wider galaxy. A terrific new book tells the story of a great human adventure
Read MoreBook Review: Cold War Modernists
/The clashes of the Cold War weren't just matters of missiles and border guards; they also enlisted honey-voiced broadcasters, drunken novelists, and bookish magazine editors, as a fascinating new book makes clear
Read MoreBook Review: The Just City
/In Jo Walton's latest novel, the "just city" of Plato's Republic is brought to life via Greek gods, robots, and a little discreet time travel
Read MoreBook Review: Kings and Emperors
/In Dewey Lambdin's latest rousing Alan Lewrie adventure, our dashing hero sees action off the coast of a Spain imperiled by Napoleon
Read MoreBook Review: The Summit - Bretton Woods, 1944
/In 1944 a contentious group of delegates gathered in New Hampshire in order to lay out a blueprint for the postwar world economy; a great new history tells the story of Bretton Woods
Read MoreBook Review: A Darker Shade of Magic
/In V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons
Read MoreBook Review: Machiavelli
/An engaging new book looks at that perennial fascination for biographers, Niccolo Machiavelli
Read MoreBook Review: The Strategist
/Two-time National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft kept a low profile (and a negligible paper trail) throughout a lifetime in Washington power-dealing; a compelling new book profiles the ultimate Oval Office insider
Read MoreBook Review: Making Nice
/In Matt Sumell's debut, his main character manages to alienate every other person in the book, often by punching them.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
/In the vastness of the world's oceans, some mammals have evolved brains and language ... and culture? A fascinating new book looks at the inner lives of whales and dolphins
Read MoreBook Review: Sartre: A Philosophical Biography
/Sartre the man takes a distant back seat to Sartre the thinker in Thomas Flynn's new intellectual biography
Read MoreBook Review: Table Talk
/For twenty-five years, the "Table Talk" feature of The Threepenny Review has offered occasional musings on a wide range of topics by some of the best freelance writers and critics in the business. A new hardcover collects a generous helping of highlights
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