Book Review: The Cemetery of Swallows
/A morose misanthrope police superintendent investigates a killing in which the murderer traveled half-way around the world in order to murder a total stranger
Read MoreBook Review: The Time Traveler's Almanac
/A key element of science fiction DNA is the whole concept of time travel, and a gigantic new anthology assembles all the greatest time travel stories ever told
Read MoreBook Review: Queen Caroline
/The wife of England's King George II has been largely forgotten by history, but she was complimented by Swift, Pope, and Voltaire in her own day - and a new book brings her marvelously to life
Read MoreBook Review: The Sixth Extinction
/Will the latest age of man - dubbed the Anthropocene - be the last? A new book looks at the tremendous toll the human race has taken on its home planet
Read MoreBook Review: The Lady of Sorrows
/On a laid-back little Greek island, a sacred icon is forged, a local painter is dead … and a fat man is on the case
Read MoreBook Review: Hyde
/A hugely enjoyable new novel tells the familiar story of Dr. Jekyll from Mr. Hyde's point of view - and will have its readers questioning who the real monster really is
Read MoreBook Review: The Pilgrims
/When two London friends find a doorway leading to a magical realm, they think they're in luck - but Will Elliott's raucous new novel has some nasty surprises in store for them
Read MoreBook Review: Lockstep
/When a tech-savvy young man wakes up fourteen thousand years after entering suspended animation, he finds the galaxy radically altered - and his brother firmly in charge
Read MoreBook Review: The Barrow
/Ancient magic talismans are almost always more trouble than they're worth, but that doesn't deter the rag-tag group of anti-heroes in Mark Smylie's energetically readable debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: A King's Ransom
/The larger-than-life story of captivity and struggles of King Richard the Lionheart
Read MoreBook Review: The Day of the Dead
/A dead street-boy haunts the latest adventure of Commissario Ricciardi in this series set in 1930s Naples
Read MoreBook Review: The Land of Steady Habits
/An affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Headmaster's Wife
/The confession of a man found wandering naked in Central Park grows more and more problematic as it unfolds
Read MoreBook Review: Cambridge
/A precocious young girl and her family travel far and wide from her beloved home of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Read MoreBill Knott, 1940-2014
/Open Letters mourns the passing of a giant of American poetry.
Read MoreBook Review: Words of Radiance
/Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series set on a storm-raked world continues
Read MoreBook Review: Road to Reckoning
/A twelve-year-old boy gains the assistance of a weathered ex-ranger in this tale of a rapidly-vanishing Old West
Read MoreBook Review: Murder at Cape Three Points
/A dogged police inspector investigates two gruesome murders at the heart of Ghana's booming new oil economy
Read MorePolicy Papers: Ukraine and the Left
/Russia and the West, talking past each other, have blundered into conflict over Ukraine. Some commentators on the American left aren't behaving much differently.
Read MoreBook Review: From the Tree to the Labyrinth
/If the idea of a big collection of writings about socio-linguistics by the author of "The Name of the Rose" strikes you as a winning way to spend a weekend, Harvard University Press has some good news for you.
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