Book Review: Mary I
/A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"
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/A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions
Read MoreBook Review: Letters to Friends
/Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.
Read MoreBook Review: Animal
/A stunning - and miraculously hopeful - update to DK's legendary guide to animals
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Jenny
/Mallory meets Mike Hammer in the latest Eddie LaCrosse adventure
Read MoreInterview with Virginia Henley
/Romance author Virginia Henley talks with Open Letters about history, human nature, and a certain four-letter word
Read MoreBook Review: The Dark Earl
/The truth is stranger - and more welcome - than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley's latest.
Read MoreGraphic Novel: Justice
/Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.
Read MoreBook Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
/A new history of ancient Rome's greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: By Nightfall
/The paperback release of Michael Cunningham's latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Tutankhamun
/An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: TheThree Musketeers
/All for one and one straight to HBO2! Huzzah!
Read MoreSplendide Mendax
/The ethics of Wikileaks (and the antics of its mastermind, Julian Assange) continue to be the focus of controversy - and new books. Greg Waldmann takes a comprehensive look at the entire phenomenon.
Read MoreWork in Progress
/Could you actually be hurting the environment by going green and moving to the suburbs? A new book champions that oft-maligned human invention: the big city.
Read More: cleave :
/a poem
Read MoreWalk, Swim, Grumble
/Olivia Laing's digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf.
Read MoreDo what the clouds do...
/A talk about touching light with cover artist Charles Matson Lume
Read MoreSatanic Maggots
/Colonialism, feminism, witchcraft, the Lord of Darkness — themes such as these once made Sylvia Townsend Warner's novels bestsellers. Now her charmingly subversive fiction is back in print.
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 MoreLove at First Glans
/Nicholson Baker's provocative new book is an attempt at mainstream literary pornography, but does it suffer from the same performance anxiety as other novelistic efforts to depict sex?
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