Book Review: Bush and Cheney
/One of the most outspoken critics of the official version of 9-11 now writes a wide-ranging assessment of the long-term consequences of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Read MoreBook Review: The Egyptians
/The Egyptian Revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath forms the subject of a riveting new book by a journalist and keen-eyed witness.
Read MoreLet's All Meet at the Mahalalel Mall
/A thorough and even-handed new book gives readers a tour of the "Creation Museum" in Kentucky - and warns not to dismiss its dangers too readily.
Read MoreBook Review: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
/A provocative new book sets out to study the faith of one of the country's most famous atheists
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Karma
/A clear-eyed look at the disaffected youth of India
Read More'Tis the Season
/Years after the "New Atheism" heyday, a new book by an old hand takes up the atheist cause with renewed urgency.
Read MoreBook Review: The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer
/A penetrating - and bitterly timely - book about the 2011 killing rampage of Anders Behring Breivik
Read MoreBook Review: One of Us
/In 2011, a man detonated a bomb in Oslo and then shot dozens of people on a nearby island before surrendering to police. A vivid new book tells the whole story of the victims - and the killer
Read MorePress Enter
/Author Jacob Silverman contends in his new book that the intrusions of social media into our private lives has reached sometimes intolerable extents. But what does he mean by "intolerable"? And who is he counting as "our"?
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 MorePeer Review: "We've All Been Wrong! Incredible!"
/Thomas Piketty's great mountain of Gallic macro-economics, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, was the hit of the Western world for one heady season. Then the parade moved on, and we were left, dazed and disheveled, wondering if we've been fed un truc de ouf. Our Peer Review attempts to sort out the l'affaire Piketty
Read MoreThe Battle for Justice in Palestine
/A controversial author's latest and most devastating indictment of Israel's policies toward its Palestinian citizens and neighbors
Read MoreThe Danelaw
/In her brilliantly scathing new book, Elaine Scarry charges that US Presidents, in maintaining and augmenting an enormous nuclear arsenal, have broken the social contract and become monarchs in all but name.
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Windsors - The Invisible Woman
/She's occupied the throne of Great Britain and the Commonwealth for 60 years, and in June Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. Three new biographies try to understand the woman wearing the crown.
Read MoreThe Prince of Now and Then
/He lost his famous mother when he was a boy, became a teen idol, had a storybook wedding, and he's second in line to be King of England. The monarchy Prince William inherits will be like nothing his predecessors have experienced - if it exists at all. "A Year with the Windsors" concludes.
Read MoreSimon & Schuster is calling Michael Behe’s The Edge of Evolution a work of science. Steve Donoghue examines just how blasphemous a claim that is.
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