Author Interview: Barry Connolly
/An interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Thief
/A heartfelt novel tells the story of the "Good Thief" who was crucified alongside Jesus at Calvary.
Read MoreBook Review: Queen of Kings
/Queen of the Nile, Queen of the Damned? "Queen of Kings" teaches a valuable lesson about not judging a book by its killer hook.
Read MoreBook Review: Spectrum 17
/The latest epic collection of fantasy art in the Spectrum series features hundreds of weird visions (and half a dozen very different trips over the rainbow).
Read MoreBook Review: Geneaology of the Pagan Gods
/A massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
Read MoreBook Review: Hounded
/A new fantasy series about a sexy druid (two thousand years young) fighting supernatural threats in present-day Arizona.
Read MoreBook Review: Worlds Made By Words
/New in paperback: a book that illuminates the slightly abstruse joys of scholarship.
Read MoreBook Review: The Mighty Thor by Walter Simonson
/The fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.
Read MoreBook Review: Bismarck
/An excellent new biography gives us the man behind the so-called Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck
Read MoreBook Review: Moontusk
/The first volume of a fantasy series set in a richly-imagined world of woolly mammoths and exotic tribesmen.
Read MoreBook Review: American Masculine
/A new collection of short stories is set in an American West that's masculinely bleak - or is it bleakly masculine?
Read MoreBook Review: A Taint in the Blood
/The first book in a new vampire series shows all the veteran author's signature strengths.
Read MoreBook Review: The Morning Star
/Overlook Press publishes a powerful and disturbing posthumous work by Andre Schwarz-Bart, author of the masterpiece "The Last of the Just"
Read MoreBook Review: The Life of Polycrates
/An interesting - if problematic - collection of short stories by the author of "Metrophilias"
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Annotated Origin
/Now published in paperback: a fantastic annotated edition of Charles Darwin's eternally-relevant bombshell, "On the Origin of Species"
Read MoreBook Review: She-Wolves
/An immensely enjoyable new book looks at four women who ruled England in the centuries before Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreReview of A Fortunate Age
/Steve Donoghue grapples with the initial irritations and eventual pleasures of Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age: "The process that changes your reaction will be familiar to anyone who’s ever been seduced by New York (a sordid, delectable experience that can happen repeatedly throughout your life – and against which there is no known vaccine)."
Read MoreBook Review: Faith
/In her latest novel, Jennifer Haigh explores the impact of the Boston Catholic Church sex abuse scandal on the lives of one close-knit family.
Read MoreBook Review: As We Are Sung
/There is nothing conventional about Christina Mengert's new book of poetry, nor can it be read the same way twice.
Read MoreThe Obscure Object of Financial Fiction
/How to write a great novel of the financial crisis? One contender has published his attempt, and it features an updated version of that bugbear figure from Shakespeare and Trollope: the Jewish banker.
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