In Paperback: The Great Sea
/David Abulafia's big book - now in paperback - tackles a subject pivotal to huge swaths of human history: the Mediterraean, that watery intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Read MoreBook Review: Alexander the Great
/The translator of Oxford's superb new edition of Arrian's book on Alexander the Great maintains that it should be appreciated at least as much for its literary merit as for its historical value - which would have pleased Arrian immensely, and which may in fact be true.
Read MoreBook Review: Ben Jonson
/A brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.
Read MoreChangeable Camelion
/Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
Read MoreOut of Sorts
/Books have been with us for thousands of years, and books about books for very nearly that long. The world of books teems with themes, and in the latest massive Oxford Companion, that world receives a bestiary with hopes of being definitive.
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