Book Review: 1781
/A flinty new account of a pivotal year in the American Revolution
Read MoreBook Review: Reprobates
/They were for King, country, and courtesans - not necessarily in that order! They were the Cavaliers, and a spirited new book tells their story.
Read MoreBook Review: Catherine the Great
/She nearly doubled the size of the Russian empire, she debated with philosophers, she endowed the first women's college in Russia, and she was a beloved mother to her people for 34 years - and she had a steady stream of lovers through it all. She was Catherine the Great.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Napoleon
/Arcade Publishing re-issues Frank McLynn's merrily magnificent biography of that pestiferous little Corsican!
Read MoreBook Review: The Romulan War
/Two new linked "Star Trek" novels dramatize a pivotal event in the fictional universe of the beloved TV show - Earth's first war with the Romulans!
Read MoreBook Review: Venice Disputed
/A beautifully illustrated examination of one Venetian nobleman's life-long wrangling with the experts over the public face of the Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreBook Review: The Goblin King
/A new romance makes beefcake from the least likely material imaginable, treasure-hunting goblins
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
/One of the greatest works of 20th century - and of all time - gets a handsome paperback reprint as it turns 50.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Evolution - The First Four Billion Years
/A gigantic new paperback examines every nook and cranny of Darwin's famous theory, still controversial after 150 years.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Once and Future King
/T. H. White's towering, sad, uplifting tale of King Arthur, Merlyn, Guenever, and Lancelot gets a beautiful Penguin reprint
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Lucretius
/A handsome re-issue of the best English-language translation of Lucretius' famous (and famously scatter-brained) poem
Read MoreDesultory Vivacity
/Does marriage mean much anymore? Does the novel? Jeffrey Eugenides sets out to reinvent the classic literary story—but can he combine the style and the substance of the greats he hopes to update to our times?
Read MoreLee Miller’s Eye
/Lee Miller, known for a hundred years as Man Ray's muse, comes into her own in a new book and exhibit. What's she like?
Read MoreAn American in China
/A meticulously-researched rendition of the horrifying massacres that comprised the "Rape of Nanjing" is the backdrop for Ha Jin's latest telegraphic and affecting novel.
Read MoreThe Personal Was Always the Political
/Vivian Gornick's biography of Emma Goldman focuses more on the famous anarchist's love life than her political ideologies--but might those tumultuous relationships offer new insights into her beliefs?
Read MoreA Heartbeat Away
/John Nance Garner famously referred to the vice presidency as being not worth a bucket of warm, er, spit - and yet, during the two terms of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney used that office to wield unprecedented power. The former vice president writes an unapologetic memoir.
Read MoreOz Discovered without Ns or Ls
/a poem
Read MoreThere Will Be No More Great Ideas
/Robert Musil's magnum opus The Man Without Qualities was groundbreaking not because it's unfinished but because it's unfinishable. A new study attempts to take scope of its deep and mesmerizing pointlessness.
Read MoreThe Restful “I”: Rumi, Psychology, and the Discovery of Love
/The 12th-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have re-created himself as an avatar of love. Chase Nordengren explores the stations on the life cycle that lead to such a radical rebirth.
Read MoreReal Illusions
/“You’ve got to learn the language of art to be able to appreciate it. And then, where you go with it, what you see with it, is only limited to your own imagination.”-- A conversation with cover artist John Bonath
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