Book Review: What Belongs to You
/An American instructor in Bulgaria falls into a problematic infatuation with a rough-hewn rent-boy in Garth Greenwell's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Norton Critical Lazarillo de Tormes
/The great Renaissance classic gets a spryly-translated new Norton edition
Read MoreBook Review: Blood & Steel
/In the third century, the Roman Empire teetered on the brink of implosion, with one man after another claiming power - and Harry Sidebottom's "Throne of the Caesars" series transmutes it all into first-rate historical fiction
Read MoreBook Review: The Happy Marriage
/A bedridden famous painter reflects on his unhappy marriage - and his wife gets the last word
Read MoreBook Review: Only the Stones Survive
/In Morgan Llywelyn's latest novel, the gods and goddesses of ancient Ireland take center stage
Read MoreBook Review: The Gun
/A young man out for a nighttime walk in Tokyo finds a gun. Then he thinks about it all the time. Then he thinks about getting bullets for it. And then he thinks about firing it ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
/A legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreBook Review: Reading The Tale of Genji
/The Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreBook Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe
/A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
Read MoreBook Review: Cleopatra's Shadows
/An effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters
Read MoreBook Review: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
/A big new volume commemorates a century of "Best American Short Stories," which began - as with all worthy things - in Boston a long time ago
Read MoreBook Review: The Secret Chord
/The author of such brilliant novels as "Year of Wonders" and "March" takes on the Biblical story of King David
Read MoreBook Review: The Ville Rat
/The odd couple military police sergeants Sueno and Bascom return in Martin Limon's gripping new mystery set in 1970s Korea
Read MoreBook Review: Quicksand
/A failed writer seizes on a most unlikely inspiration for his great book: the catastrophically unlucky life of his best friend
Read MoreBook Review: Those We Left Behind
/In the latest crime novel from Stuart Neville, two young killers are getting paroled - much too soon for the son of their victim
Read MoreBook Review: The Murdstone Trilogy
/The author of several well-regarded but unprofitable novels about sensitive misfit boys turns to the industry's top money-maker: epic fantasy. Disaster promptly ensues.
Read MoreBook Review: Everland
/In 2012, a trio of Antarctic explorers re-traces the path of a doomed expedition from 1913
Read MoreBook Review: The Double Life of Liliane
/National Book Award-winner Lily Tuck's latest book attempts an experiment at dramatizing her memories of her early years
Read MoreBook Review: The Storms of War
/In historian Kate Williams' new novel, a wealthy family in England confronts the realities of the First World War
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