Book Review: Sting Like a Bee
/The greatest boxer of all time was once involved in a years-long battle ... with the US government. A hugely readable new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: He's Got Rhythm
/The legendary hoofer and showman Gene Kelly gets a big, winning new biography
Read MoreBook Review: How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
/Popular YouTube sensation Léo Grasset imports his brand of easygoing biology lessons to the pages of a slim book.
Read MoreBook Review: Salt Houses
/A Palestinian family is driven from one place of exile to another in this memorable debut novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Eddy
/The English-language translation of a French novella about the everyday trials and setbacks of growing up gay
Read MoreBook Review: The Dinner Party and Other Stories
/The latest volume from Joshua Ferris collects eleven of his punchy and evocative short stories.
Read MoreThe Face in the Locket
/Margaret Douglas was the niece of Henry VIII - and a tireless, lifelong schemer and rule-breaker. A definitive new biography portrays the life of the woman who was almost Queen Margaret
Read MoreBook Review: Dogs of War
/Killer robot dogs playing fetch with weapons of mass destruction! Killer 'smart' machines the size of a grain of sand! And every last little thing weaponized! It's the latest Joe Ledger novel.
Read MoreBook Review: Hamlet Globe to Globe
/A terrific new book tells the story of what happens when a hardy company takes the world's most famous play to every country on Earth.
Read MoreBook Review: What Algorithms Want
/A cogent, sobering new book looks at the computer conversations that increasingly shape every aspect of our lives.
Read MoreBook Review: The Malmedy Massacre
/One of the most shocking incidents of the Battle of the Bulge was the slaughter of a group of US prisoners by the SS at Malmedy. A gripping new book tells the story of the massacre and its tangled aftermath
Read MoreBook Review: Humanism and the Latin Classics
/The latest addition to the I Tatti Renaissance Library gives readers the letters and prefaces of one of the greatest publishers of his day - Aldus Manutius.
Read MoreBook Review: Birds of Prey
/The savage, beautiful carnivore-birds who fly and hunt by day are the subject of an enthusiastic new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Quarry Fox
/A charming new book takes readers into the fascinating world of Catskills "critters," trees, trails, and even rocks.
Read MoreBook Review: The Complete Old English Poems
/A hefty new volume brings together all the poetry of the Old English world, wrought into modern verse.
Read MoreBook Review: Becoming Leonardo
/An unconventional and compulsively readable new biography tries to get at the heart of the quintessential Renaissance Man.
Read MoreBook Review: Protestants
/A invigorating new history looks at the tumultuous 500-year history of Protestantism
Read MoreBook Review: The Imagineers of War
/Famed in pop culture, the unconventional geniuses of DARPA were tasked with developing the technology of the future, today. A big new book delves into the history of the Pentagon's think-tank.
Read MoreLèse-Majesté
/"A Year with the Tudors II" continues with a comprehensive new biography of King Henry VIII's fifth wife, the flighty teenager Catherine Howard.
Read MoreBook Review: Martin Luther, Renegade and Prophet
/A smart and rewarding new biography seeks to portray the very human man underneath the multilayered legend of Martin Luther.
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