Book Review: Edwardian Opulence
/The richest denizens of the Edwardian Era swan around in their finest stuff, immortalized by the likes of Sargent and Boldini, and a sumptuous new book from Yale University Press records it all
Read MoreBook Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones
/Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Proof of Heaven
/A neurosurgeon's reflections on his time in a coma convince him that it held the secret to the universe.
Read MoreBook Review: Abide with Me
/In a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Shadows and Strongholds
/In a welcome reprint, a brave but untried young 12th century knight must learn how to fight - and take a bride
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Dune
/The greatest sci-fi novel of all time is inaugurated into the Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics library
Read MoreBack in Paperback: The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
/David Halberstam's 1968 profile of candidate Robert Kennedy gets a new reprint for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Honor
/The barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns
Read MoreBook Review: The Sunshine When She's Gone
/With the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.
Read MoreBook Review: Invisible Armies
/A big new book looks at the long history of guerrilla warfare and centers its lessons on our own time.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Light There Was
/In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreBook Review: The Library of America Aldo Leopold
/The most cherished nature classic since "Walden" gets the sparkling Library of America canonization
Read MoreBook Review: The Blue Book
/A young woman finds herself on a ship at sea with both her fiance and a mysterious man from her past, and it's all like something you'd find in a book ...
Read MoreBook Review: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment
/The greatest enemy of freedom is ... democracy? Come get to know Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, ladies and gentlemen!
Read MoreBook Review: The Carriage House
/A patrician family copes with all kinds of disappointment in Louisa Hall's not-at-all-disappointing debut novel
Read MoreComics: Avengers Versus Thanos
/Before the mad demi-titan Thanos arrives to menace movie theaters in 2015, he menaced the good guys in decades of comics - a new anthology collects some of the best of the bad guy
Read MoreBook Review: After Rome
/When Roman troops left Britain forever, the locals were forced to fend for themselves - and in Morgan Llywelyn's latest historical novel, two cousins take two very different approaches to a world after Rome.
Read MoreNorman Lebrecht's CD of the Week - Valentina Lisitsa
/Youtube sensation Valentina Lisitsa has put out the finest recording of Rachmaninov's piano concertos in decades. Norman Lebrecht reviews.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
/Director Sam Raimi takes on one of the greatest cinematic classics of 'em all - with decidedly mixed results
Read MoreBook Review: Britain Begins
/Long, long before Canute and the Confessor, England was a fascinating place - the great archaeologist Barry Cunliffe tells the tale!
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