Classics Reissued: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
/A wonderful (and long out of print) adaptation of "SIr Gawain and the Green Knight" by the great 20th century novelist and teacher John Gardner
Read MoreBook Review: Star Trek, The Rings of Time
/Captain Kirk finds himself stranded in the middle of space in the 21st century in this new Star Trek novel.
Read More'I am Thy Man'
/He fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
Read MoreBook Review: The Design in Nature
/The originator of Constructal Theory writes another book expounding his notion that all things flow against resistance, and that everything flowing is alive.
Read MoreBook Review: Iago
/One of Shakespeare's greatest villains gets a novel of his own - is there creative life after the Bard?
Read MoreBook Review: An Available Man
/A befuddled widower finds himself suddenly thrust back into the dating game in Hilma Wolitzer's latest novel
Read MoreComics: Fear Itself
/The god of fear comes to Earth intent on stomping all over Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and company
Read MoreBook Review: Death and Resurrection
/A new fantasy novel from a neglected giant in the genre!
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII
/A masterful new biography takes Henry VIII down a peg or two
Read MoreBook Review: Ben Jonson
/A brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance
Read MoreInterview: Christina Brooke
/An interview with Romance author Christina Brooke!
Read MoreBook Review: Mad About the Earl
/When it comes to matters of matrimony, Christina Brooke's Ministry of Marriage will have its way, even if - in her latest novel - it means matching a ravishing beauty with a reluctant beast!
Read MoreComics: The Drops of God
/The international hit manga series about the joys of fine wine comes to America in a series of new graphic novels
Read MoreBook Review: The Evolution of Ethan Poe
/a gay teen in rural Maine deals with God, lust, and dogs in Robin Reardon's latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Apocryphal Gospels
/They've been debated, debarred, and destroyed over the centuries, but the Apocryphal Gospels are still with us, and in this fantastic new edition, they speak more clearly than ever.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Fire Upon the Deep
/Vernor Vinge's epic science fiction masterpiece gets a spiffy reprint on its twentieth anniversary!
Read MoreBook Review: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes
/A new novel (tie-in with the hit TV series) gives us an adventure of the pre-rebellion Spartacus
Read MoreAn Interview with Carol Carr
/A lively interview with Carol Carr, author of the 'India Black' novels!
Read MoreBook Review: Sex and the River Styx
/The great essayist Edward Hoagland has come out with another collection of his work, one preoccupied with old age and looming mortality - and happiness, and renewal, and forest ponds.
Read MoreBook Review: The Darwin Archipelago
/He wrote about the voyage of the Beagle, and then he wrote about the Origin of Species ... but many readers don't recall that Charles Darwin KEPT writing, generating many more books in the two decades left to him.
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