Book Review: Caravaggio
/A lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
Read MoreBook Review: Theodora
/A lively and refreshingly blunt novel about one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - women in ancient history
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreChairman of the Board
/Lodestar or mirror? Passé or ne plus ultra? Elizabeth II has presided with consistency over an inconsistent age. And what have we learned of her?
Read MoreBook Review: Mary I
/A quietly stunning new biography of England's infamous "Bloody Mary"
Read MoreBook Review: Star Trek: Cast No Shadow
/A new Star Trek novel attempts to answer some old Star Trek questions
Read MoreBook Review: Letters to Friends
/Sooner or later, Harvard's glorious I Tatti Renaissance Library gets around to everybody.
Read MoreBook Review: Animal
/A stunning - and miraculously hopeful - update to DK's legendary guide to animals
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Jenny
/Mallory meets Mike Hammer in the latest Eddie LaCrosse adventure
Read MoreBook Review: The Dark Earl
/The truth is stranger - and more welcome - than fiction in Romance legend Virginia Henley's latest.
Read MoreGraphic Novel: Justice
/Writer Jim Krueger, artist Doug Braithwaite, and fan-favorite superhero painter Alex Ross create the ultimate Justice League adventure.
Read MoreBook Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
/A new history of ancient Rome's greatest adversary, the doomed empire of Carthage.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: By Nightfall
/The paperback release of Michael Cunningham's latest novel, a deft portrait of middle-aged might-have-been lust
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Tutankhamun
/An engrossing novel featuring the boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun and his steely chief of detectives, Rahotep.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: TheThree Musketeers
/All for one and one straight to HBO2! Huzzah!
Read MoreChangeable Camelion
/Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Too Much to Know
/Now in paperback: a fascinating look at the intellectual Dark Ages (i.e. before Wikipedia)
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Thirteen Hours
/The murder of an American tourist in Cape Town propels this well-made thriller, the latest paperback from an internationally popular writer.
Read MoreBook Review: Byron in Geneva
/Joining the innumerable hosts of Byron biographies, a new book looks at the heartthrob poet's brief but legendary sojourn to Geneva
Read MoreAuthor Interview: Justin Gustainis
/A quick Q & A with Justin Gustainis, author of the Morris and Chastain novels, on fame, devils, and holy scripture
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