Book Review: The extraordinary journey of the fakir who got trapped in an Ikea wardrobe
/A slim picaresque novel that was a runaway bestseller in France gets a stylish English-language translation
Read MoreBook Review: One Nation, Under Gods
/From the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry
Read MoreBook Review: The Age of Consequences
/An environmentalist writes an energetic and - despite everything - optimistic clarion call to better and smarter thinking about how mankind can ease its disastrous impact on nature
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/Colleen McCullough
Read MoreBook Review: Half-Life
/In 1950 a prominent Western nuclear physicist disappeared - and re-surfaced years later in the Soviet Union, helping the Russians to develop their atomic arsenal. A gripping new book tells the story of a traitor who was also a genius
Read MoreBook Review: Like A Bomb Going Off
/Revolutionary Russian choreographer Leonid Yakobson fought prejudice, rivals, and the omnipresent Soviet censors to pursue his art, as a magnificent new book narrates
Read MoreBook Review: Galapagos Regained
/A true believer in the tenets of Darwinism in the 19th Century goes on what amounts to a pilgrimage to that great Darwinian destination, the Galapagos Islands, in James Morrow's glowing new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Ocean Worlds
/World after world detected by powerful long-range telescopes are being shown to possess oceans - probably radically different from those of Earth; a new book looks at water worlds, our own and others
Read MoreBook Review: American Passage
/For the earliest New England settlers, there were no roads through the wilderness - only the pathways used by suspicious and distrustful natives. And yet, the desire to share news was as strong as ever - a fascinating new book looks at the ways gossip travels in the woods.
Read MoreBook Review: White Plague
/Only one man can possibly save a plague- and fire-stricken sub that's burning and adrift at the top of the world ...
Read MoreBook Review: Unbreakable
/When young Promise's family is killed on their peaceful frontier planet, she signs up with the space-Marines - as one tends to do in such circumstances
Read MoreBook Review: Thieves of State
/When states engage in corruption - and condone it in other states - they fuel exactly the kind of tensions that, short of war, are the only things that can threaten those states; a stunning new book examines the kinetics of wrongdoing
Read MoreBook Review: The Whispering Swarm
/The legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock returns after a long absence to the genre he helped to create
Read MoreBook Review: The Middle Ages
/A nimble and tremendously engaging history of the Middle Ages finally gets translated into English
Read MoreBook Review: Frog
/China's one-child social policy forms the grim backdrop to Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mo Yan's latest translated novel
Read MoreBook Review: Blood-Drenched Beard
/In this newly-translated hit from Brazil, a young man goes in search of what really happened to his grandfather
Read MoreBook Review: Medieval Christianity
/An accessible new scholarly history looks at the millennium during which Christianity ruled the West
Read MoreBook Review: Outline
/A writing instructor takes a brief trip to Athens in Rachel Cusk's much-praised new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Taking on Theodore Roosevelt
/A lively, authoritative new book examines one of the darkest stains on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Read MoreBook Review: Sympathy for the Devil
/Michael Mewshaw comes not to praise Gore Vidal but to bury him in this new memoir of a friendship that did not outlast Mr. Vidal's funeral.
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