Book Review: Moral Agents
/A collection of profiles of eight pivotal American literary men of the 20th century - Robert Minto reviews
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/Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Pedigree
/Yale University Press publishes a 2005 memoir by the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
Read MoreBook Review: Ashoka in Ancient India
/The great ancient Indian emperor Ashoka gets a splendid new biography that attempts to divine the man at the heart of the legend
Read MoreBook Review: The Poetry of John Milton
/A sumptuous new book studies the work of one of the English language's greatest poets. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: Barbarian Days
/Veteran New Yorker writer William Finnegan has written a captivating memoir of surfing and growing up
Read MoreBook Review: The Dinosaur Lords
/On the world of Paradise, the wars of dynasties are fought on battlefields by knights mounted on dinosaurs
Read MoreBook Review: Voices in the Ocean
/A lively new book explores the minds and behaviors of many of Earth's cetaceans
Read MoreBook Review: The President and the Apprentice
/The settled opinion of historians has always been that President Eisenhower personally hated his vice president, Richard Nixon; a vigorous, unmissable new book tries to set that record straight
Read MoreBook Review: Hirohito's War
/A massive new history details the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII
Read MoreBook Review: Where Are My Books?
/One by one, young Spencer's books are disappearing at night - can he figure out where they're going before they're all gone?
Read MoreBook Review: The Meaning of the Library
/A new book celebrating the library's thousands of years of history and constantly-changing cultural role is filled with sharp essays
Read MoreBook Review: Voltaire's Revolution
/For the better part of a century, Voltaire waged a sometimes solitary battle against the iniquities of organized religion. A great new book brings together fresh translations of some of the philosopher's most biting works.
Read MoreBook Review: The Real Lives of Roman Britain
/Archeological research has uncovered more than ever about the ordinary men and women who lived in Britain during the centuries of Roman occupation. A lively new book assesses what we know
Read MoreBook Review: The Blooding
/Matthew Hawkwood, James McGee's super-competent soldier-turned-spy, returns in another adventure, this time trapped in America during the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers in Blood
/In the latest Roman historical novel from old pro Simon Scarrow, two heroic legionaries are chasing an infamous local warlord in Britannia - and facing treachery from within their own ranks
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/Alan Cheuse
Read MoreStarship Captains Do It On Impulse (Unfortunately)
/In fan-favorite Ernest Cline's new book, a young man raised on video games and cheesy sci-fi movies finds that they just might be the key to Earth's salvation. But is the 80's nostalgia of Armada self-defeating?
Read MoreThe Edge of Sin
/Robyn Cadwallader centers her debut novel on a young nun who volunteers to be walled away from all human contact for the rest of her life. Such women existed and, surprisingly, their lives were enormously full.
Read More“The Strangest Teens of All”
/The venerable concept of the superhero team dates back to 1940, but in 1975 Marvel Comics introduced a new team of X-Men - and an empire was born.
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