Book Review: Simply Good News
/The latest book from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright presents a passionate new appraisal of the "good news " of the Christian Gospels
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/When a 21st-century woman travels to the hometown of Emily Dickinson, she finds herself caught between a passionate present and a past far more human than she imagined
Read MoreBook Review: The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
/In the very engaging latest from Sharma Shields, one family has a very unusual encounter with the legendary Bigfoot
Read MoreBook Review: The Great Zoo of China
/A small group of Americans visit a super-secret Chinese nature-park with a very unusual star attraction.
Read MoreBook Review: Gods, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
/Former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee offers a plea for understanding the 'flyover states' where, he claims, real people lead real lives
Read MoreBook Review: Thieves' Road
/Two years before he gained fame in the most painful way imaginable at the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer led a large expedition into the Black Hills sacred to the Sioux - in search of gold
Read MoreBook Review: Turtle Face and Beyond
/The author of "Dogwalker" returns with a new collection of interlinked short stories that revel in their own straight-faced absurdity
Read MoreBook Review: Unbecoming
/In this arresting debut, a young woman working in Paris is hiding from her past - and she worries that the old friends she betrayed are hunting her.
Read MoreBook Review: The Dogs Are Eating Them Now
/One of the most experienced reporters to cover the war in Afghanistan writes up his experiences
Read MoreBook Review: Phantom Terror
/In his new book, historian Adam Zamoyski paints a picture of a Europe convulsed with fear of upheavals like the French Revolution and the tyranny of Bonaparte - and willing to do anything to prevent them
Read MoreBook Review: A Superpower Transformed
/A paradigm-shifting new book looks at the turbulent decade of the 1970s in United States politics and the re-shaping of the world
Read MoreOutrunning the Constables
/To shut down his internal censors, Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote My Struggle at the astounding rate of over a thousand pages a year. The result is fiction that is vibrantly alive.
Read MoreThese Pictures are Themselves Little Souls
/A new reprint line from the New York Review of Books concentrates on literature from - and on - China's long literary history, and the first three volumes offer the strange, the familiar, and the beautiful.
Read MoreGrudge Sliver
/In Alice Fulton's new book Barely Composed, her poems flash across the whole of the language, whip it into a froth, playfully distort it, and sometimes bypass it altogether. Open Letters' Poetry Editor reads along.
Read More"Why, It's I!"
/Any new translation of a classic like Anna Kareninainevitably raises an awkward question: what was wrong with all the old translations? Debut writer Zach Rabiroff takes it line-by-line
Read MoreThe Buildup of Erasure
/Claudia Rankine articulates the truths of the black experience so poignantly in her celebrated collection Citizen by putting them, paradoxically, both plainly and artfully.
Read MoreAprès moi, le déluge
/Charles Marville’s extraordinary photographs of 19th-century Paris are like a cautionary tale, urging us to preserve the best of what is left in our own cities.
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Read MoreKitchen Witchery
/For centuries, women have handed down much more than recipes from their kitchens: they have shared the special alchemy that transforms the mundane into the magical.
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