Book Review: Dante - The Story of His Life
/A thorough new biography explores the life of the great Florentine poet in detail
Read MoreBook Review: In a Dark Wood
/A professor of Italian clings to Dante's Divine Comedy when confronted with an unthinkable tragedy in his own life
Read MoreSilly Like Us: W.H. Auden
/Coming of age after World War I, Auden took the alienation of his generation and sharpened it to a special keenness; he transformed his disaffected modernism into an immortal body of work that still challenges today.
Read MoreA Devil in the Details
/The ideal player for Capcom's new version of "Devil May Cry" must be a ballerina of death-dealing, striking down an endless array of foes with an endless array of weapons. But how will all of this strike the other-than-ideal player?
Read MoreMost Sovereign Master
/"Although virtually all subjects were still religious, their humanity was brought to the fore, emphasizing that God, in the form of Jesus Christ, was made man and that He, and the Virgin Mary, and saints, like us, had human features"
Read MoreA Prison Spotlight
/Former political radical Susan Rosenberg received the longest sentence ever given for the charge of possessing explosives. Her new memoir revisits her prison experience.
Read MoreNo Heaven for Suckers
/He has become synonymous with amoral, cold-hearted political machination, but there was more to Machiavelli than that. A new biography attempts to look at the whole man.
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