The Summer’s Rage of Fire
/World War I is known for its inching attrition, but both sides tried their hand at massive, all-or-nothing 'pushes' - including two of the worst, the Marne and the Somme.
Read MoreOn the Bunny Slopes of Helicon
/Steven Moore's big new book seeks to give an 'alternative history' to that most familiar of literary forms, the novel. But at what point does history become wishful thinking?
Read MoreLost, Well-Lost
/In his study of the poetry and life of dissolute writer Alexander Trocchi, our intrepid corespondent follows him into the dark corners he described, and consorts with smoky ghosts.
Read More“For a Long Time I Hated God…”
/Famed reporter Sebastian Junger spent months embedded with frontline troops in Afghanistan's most forbidding region and tells the stories of the men who fight there.
Read MoreThe Idea of Her
/Her stature has only grown over time, dominating bookstores, television, movie theaters, and now the Internet. She's Jane Austen, the world's least likely pop star.
Read MoreOn the Scent: The Forbidden Fruit Note
/In this installment of our new feature, Elisa Gabbert sniffs out the now-unfashionable subject of 'fruity' scents -- wherefore their disgrace? and are the critics in error?
Read MoreWrite, Repeat Redux
/In his new memoir, Christopher Hitchens regales his readers with one good story after another. But as John Rodwan shows, we've heard most of them before - lots of times.
Read MoreLike Some Chalice of Old Time
/From Wyatt to Wordsworth to Bishop (and not forgetting that Shakespeare fellow), that waltz of verse, the sonnet, has survived and thrived. A new collection has some fresh faces.
Read MoreWedding Plans Are Postponed Due to Patricide
/The new Hollywood extravaganza "Prince of Persia" is based on a video game with long history. Fitting, then, that our gamer-expert Phillip A. Lobo should review them both.
Read MoreOut in the Open
/The forest in this season is a silent palace of abandoned rooms. /Only a few, precise sounds: as if someone were lifting twigs with tweezers; /as if, inside each tree-trunk, a hinge was creaking quietly.
Read MoreGeneral Winter Had Help
/We often let Napoleon's failure to conquer Russia obscure the fact that Napoleon was then conquered by Russia. A new book restores the balance of power.
Read MoreI Talk & Laugh & Listen
/A minor daughter of Scottish nobility was raised to the royalty of England at the turn of the 20th century and lived until she was 102. Her official biography chronicles an age.
Read MoreRaggedy-Ass Marines
/The Pacific Theater WWII battle against Japan - it will forever be 'the other war' - here takes center stage as the boredom and carnage are seen by five individual soldiers.
Read MoreBrain Vegans
/George Romero, master of the zombie movie, returns to theaters with Survival of the Dead, and our resident zombie expert Deirdre Crimmins has a front row seat.
Read MoreFoxhole Allies
/The Anarchist movement in America was the first to embrace some form of gay rights, but it was more a marriage of convenience than love at first sight.
Read MoreThe Trickster of Hyacinth Grove
/America's ever-expanding suburbs have brought us right to the doorstep of the wild - and brought the wild to our doorstep - redefining both worlds in the process.
Read MoreJune 2010 Issue
/"Garage 1" by Kyle Siddons
Read MoreA Year with Short Novels: The Rooms of the Past
/Ingrid Norton's Year with Short Novels continues in this installment about William Maxwell's problematically nostalgic novella So Long, See You Tomorrow
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