Book Review: The Comedy is Finished
/A series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?
Read MoreBook Review: City of Fortune
/An intensely readable history of the wars that made - and then broke - the city of Venice as ruler of the seas.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Avengers Prime
/Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America - read a great adventure of the Avengers core trio before you feast your eyes on the summer's movie!
Read MoreBook Review: Zoopolis
/An eloquent and extremely thought-provoking new formulation of animals deserve from the humans who determine their fates.
Read MoreBook Review: Quiet
/A new book praises introverts as the wonderful, sensitive, thoughtful conscience of the brawling, talking human race.
Read MoreBook Review: Ghost on the Throne
/When Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.
Read MoreClassics 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
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