Book Review: Pirates of the Narrow Seas
/Lt. Peter Thornton of the 18th century British Navy has a problem more threatening than storms or pirates or cannon-fire: he's gay, and he's in love with his captain.
Read MoreBook Review: Exorcising Hitler
/A new history examines the problems the Allies faced when they took on the job of occupying a defeated Germany in 1945.
Read MoreBook Review: Lost in Lexicon
/A canny and engaging children's book about a pair of enterprising kids trying to make sense of a magical realm where their homework actually matters.
Read MoreA great translation of one of the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels" is given a carefully-revised and gorgeously produced reprint by Tuttle Publishing.
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: The Marvels Project
/Unfamiliar characters like the Angel, the Phantom Bullet, and John Steele join the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America in the birth of the Marvel Age of Super-Heroes
Read MoreThat Indescribable Something
/She was married to two kings, reigned during the advent of trench warfare and the suppression of suffragettes, and stayed all her life a delightful dinner guest; A Year With the Windsors continues with the fascinating and fastidious Queen Mary.
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Barry Connolly
/An interview with the author of the debut novel "The Good Thief"
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Thief
/A heartfelt novel tells the story of the "Good Thief" who was crucified alongside Jesus at Calvary.
Read MoreBook Review: Queen of Kings
/Queen of the Nile, Queen of the Damned? "Queen of Kings" teaches a valuable lesson about not judging a book by its killer hook.
Read MoreBook Review: Spectrum 17
/The latest epic collection of fantasy art in the Spectrum series features hundreds of weird visions (and half a dozen very different trips over the rainbow).
Read MoreBook Review: Geneaology of the Pagan Gods
/A massive, lively, entertaining work by Boccaccio that isn't "The Decameron"
Read MoreBook Review: Hounded
/A new fantasy series about a sexy druid (two thousand years young) fighting supernatural threats in present-day Arizona.
Read MoreBook Review: Worlds Made By Words
/New in paperback: a book that illuminates the slightly abstruse joys of scholarship.
Read MoreBook Review: The Mighty Thor by Walter Simonson
/The fabled Walter Simonson issues of "The Mighty Thor" are finally collected in one massive volume - and they've never looked better.
Read MoreBook Review: Bismarck
/An excellent new biography gives us the man behind the so-called Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck
Read MoreBook Review: Moontusk
/The first volume of a fantasy series set in a richly-imagined world of woolly mammoths and exotic tribesmen.
Read MoreBook Review: American Masculine
/A new collection of short stories is set in an American West that's masculinely bleak - or is it bleakly masculine?
Read MoreBook Review: A Taint in the Blood
/The first book in a new vampire series shows all the veteran author's signature strengths.
Read MoreBook Review: The Morning Star
/Overlook Press publishes a powerful and disturbing posthumous work by Andre Schwarz-Bart, author of the masterpiece "The Last of the Just"
Read MoreBook Review: The Life of Polycrates
/An interesting - if problematic - collection of short stories by the author of "Metrophilias"
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