Book Review: The Imagineers of War
/For decades, the weirdos and shaggy-haired mad-genius inventors of DARPA have toiled in well-funded obscurity; a new book uses recently-declassified material to tell their story.
Read MoreBook Review: Fallen Glory
/A lavishly-produced new book details humanity's long love-hate relationship with some of its most famous and iconic buildings.
Read MoreBook Review: A History of Ancient Egypt from the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
/The author's multi-volume history of Ancient Egypt now reaches the high points of that culture's power and refinement.
Read MoreBook Review: Carnivore Minds
/Sharks, bears, rattlesnakes ... these and other infamous apex carnivores long considered mindless killing machines are given a fresh and nuanced re-examination in G. A. Bradshaw's new book.
Read MoreBook Review: The New Neotropical Companion
/A classic nature guide gets an elaborate, beautiful update.
Read MoreBook Review: Swimmer Among the Stars
/Islands of bright, fable-spinning whimsy dot the debut collection of Kanishk Tharoor
Read MoreBook Review: The Weight of This World
/The sudden death of their drug dealer sends two backwoods friends into a spiral of greed and violence in the new novel from David Joy.
Read MoreBook Review: Spaceman of Bohemia
/A lone Czech astronaut on a deep-space mission confronts his past and his fears in this taut, memorable debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: In This Grave Hour
/Even the declaration of war with Germany doesn't stop mysteries from arriving at the doorstep of the indefatigable Maisie Dobbs.
Read MoreBook Review: Sex and the Constitution
/A richly rewarding new book narrates the long and complicated history of the American quest for - and fight against - life, liberty, and the pursuit of sex.
Read MoreBook Review: A Rabble of Dead Money
/Long before the Great Recession shook the modern world to its financial foundations, there was the Great Depression, the subject of a gripping new history.
Read MoreBook Review: Cnut the Great
/A taut, gripping new biography presents the life of the great warlord-monarch King Cnut
Read MoreBook Review: Clement Attlee
/A boisterous new biography re-examines the life and legacy of the enigmatic British Prime Minister and Labor leader Clement Attlee
Read MoreBook Review: The Gulf
/The whole sweep of the Gulf of Mexico's nature and history is the subject of a fascinating and passionate new book.
Read MoreBook Review: Gunmetal Gray
/In the latest "Gray Man" novel, Mark Greaney's tough-as-nails title character is on the hunt in Southeast Asia for a vanished Chinese super-hacker.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: A Flash, a Thud, a Crimson Deluge
/Poor innocent Lady Jane Grey has been an ostentatious martyr to the Protestant cause for centuries; a new book tells her brief but familiar life story as continues.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin and the Scientists
/The Soviet Union billed itself as a scientific utopia, and yet, as a tremendously readable new history illustrates, the awkward of marriage of state and science gave rise to a parade of absurdities.
Read MoreBook Review: The Inkblots
/You've all seen the famous Rorschach inkblots; a fantastic new book tells the story not only of the inkblots but also of the odd, fascinating man behind them.
Read MoreBook Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreBook Review: The President Will See You Now
/A warm, engaging memoir takes readers inside the post-presidency years of Ronald Reagan
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