Book Review: Rebellion
/Veteran popularizer Peter Ackroyd gives his readers a rattling good yarn of kings, decapitations, interregnums, frivolities, and depositions
Read MoreBook Review: The Marquis
/The boyish hero of the American Revolution who became a more problematic and complicated figure in the political upheavals of his native France, the celebrated Marquis de Lafayette gets a sparkling new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Imprudent King
/He ruled an empire on which, it was famously said, the sun never set - and he did all the paperwork himself! It's a new life of King Philip II of Spain
Read MoreBook Review: Joan of Arc - A Life Transfigured
/The mighty Maid who led medieval France's armies to a string of improbable victories before being burned at the stake for witchcraft has been immortalized in song, on stage, on film - and in countless books. A new biography is the latest to tell the tale.
Read MoreBen Bradlee
/Rest in Peace
Read MoreBook Review: Isabella, the Warrior Queen
/Biographer Kirstin Downey frees Queen Isabella from the shadow of her husband Ferdinand and sets her center-stage in her own incredible life
Read MoreBook Review: George Whitefield - America's Spiritual Founding Father
/In colonial America, a strange, otherworldly English preacher set off a tidal wave of fundamentalist revivalism that shaped an entire generation.
Read MoreBook Review: The Collapse
/Twenty-five years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and the structure of European politics changed literally overnight. A fantastic new book dissects a turning point in modern history
Read MoreBook Review: Desert God
/Wilbur Smith continues the adventures of his super-eunuch Taita in his latest novel set in ancient Egypt
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Wars of Justinian
/Everybody knows Procopius as the author of the scandalous "Secret History" - but he wrote a long and fascinating work of straightforward history as well, and that work finally gets a great one-volume English edition.
Read MoreBook Review: The Woman Who Would Be King
/3000 years ago, a capable, enigmatic woman named Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for over twenty years; a spirited new biography tells her story
Read MoreBook Review: The Georgetown Set
/In postwar Washington, a group of smart, well-placed and high-powered friends helped to set national policy over after-dinner conversation - a sparkling new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: New York Mid-Century, 1945-1965
/A new and raucous (and sometimes destructive) dawn of art, architecture, and nightlife broke over New York City in the decades after the Second World War; a gorgeous new book traces the major upheavals
Read MoreClassics Reissued: The Annotated Wuthering Heights
/New from the Belknap Press: a lavish new annotated edition of "Wuthering Heights"
Read MoreBook Review: Autumn, All the Cats Return
/Lieutenant Sebag returns in the second installment of Philippe Georget's top-notch murder-thriller series set in southern France
Read MoreBook Review: Political Order and Political Decay
/The author of "The End of History and the Last Man" completes his massive study of the life-cycles of human governmental systems
Read MoreBook Review: The Ugly Renaissance
/The age of Michelangelo and Leonardo was also the age of plague and pestilence; a new book finds this fact fascinating
Read MoreBook Review: 1381- The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
/A fascinating new book uncovers new depths and complexities in the much-studied events of Wat Tyler's Rebellion
Read MoreCarolyn Kizer
/Rest in Peace
Read MoreBook Review: The Wars of the Roses
/The protracted dynastic struggle of York and Lancaster is the dramatic subject of the new book by historian Dan Jones
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