Classics Reissued: The Essential X-Men Vol. 2
/X-Men fans new and old can rejoice in this hefty re-issued collection of classic tales
Read MoreBook Review: Barn Owl
/A beautiful new book on one of the most recognizable and evocative of all birds, the barn owl
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Antony and Cleopatra
/New in paperback: an excellent dual biography of one of history's most famous couples.
Read MoreBook Review: 1066
/A sharply realistic new history of the Norman invasion and conquest of England
Read MoreBook Review: The Dovekeepers
/An ambitious historical novel (about the Jewish fortress of Masada) from a well-loved contemporary novelist
Read MoreBook Review: Exodus from the Alamo
/A revisionary new account takes a hammer to every cherished myth about the heroic last stand at the Alamo.
Read MoreBook Review: Caravaggio
/A lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
Read MoreBook Review: Theodora
/A lively and refreshingly blunt novel about one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - women in ancient history
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Letter from Boston: Toward a New History
/Boston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
Read MoreTime Wounds All Heels
/In Alan Hollinghurst's new novel The Stranger's Child the renown of a minor English poet balloons and distorts in each succeeding decade after his death
Read MoreDown and Out in Luanda and Lisbon
/Novelist António Lobo Antunes' books are searing and wildly original indictments of Portugal's needlessly protracted and bloody colonization of Angola.
Read MoreA Crucible of the Human Spirit Guy
/Ben Lerner's arresting first novel sets a funhouse mirror before the author's own formative years as a poet, poseur, and pill-popper in Madrid.
Read MoreOn the Scent: A Certain Vintage
/Our resident nose racks up facts on the tinctures of yesteryear, many of which still prove possible to capture and some of which are well worth sniffing out
Read MoreOne Encounter: El Jaleo
/What good are reproductions and what do we lose in keeping them? Our writer returns to a famous painting after a dozen years and finds more than he'd imagined
Read MoreDisembodied Embodiment
/The late Akilah Oliver's poetry uses language to escape the trap of consciousness--verse "as rapture, as rupture" alike
Read MoreEndearment
/a poem
Read MoreChairman of the Board
/Lodestar or mirror? Passé or ne plus ultra? Elizabeth II has presided with consistency over an inconsistent age. And what have we learned of her?
Read MoreThe Birth of a Salesman
/Eleven years after her breakout novel The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt returns to satirize the chattering nonsense of the corporate world.
Read MoreRime Redux
/A new graphic novel reworks Coleridge's classic confrontation between man and nature for our times, taking us on a grand tour of environmental degradation.
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