Book Review: Reading for My Life
/A new anthology samples from a lifetime's publications of a beloved critic
Read MoreBook Review: History of a Pleasure Seeker
/In Richard Mason's latest novel, a handsome, articulate young man takes a job with a wealthy family as tutor for their troubled son
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth the First
/Elizabeth Hardwick joined the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan with every intention of making her mark upon it - which she did, in review after inimitable review, taking American book-discourse to levels and places it had never reached before
Read MoreBook Review: Watergate
/Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
Read MoreBook Review: Enterprise
/a lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Illumination in the Flatwoods
/In conjunction with a recent PBS special, a classic book is re-issued: the story of a man who became the mother, father, and leader to an engaging group of wild turkeys
Read MoreBook Review: Under the Moons of Mars
/A new anthology of tales set in the exotic Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" novels!
Read MoreBook Review: The Frontiers of Imperial Rome
/The frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Avengers Assemble Vol. 2
/The Earth's Mightiest Heroes love, squabble, and fight killer robots in this latest reprint volume
Read MoreBook Review: The Forest Laird
/A veteran historical novelist takes on that gigantic freedom fighter, William Wallace
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Dr. Fu-Manchu
/Everybody knows the name Fu-Manchu, but so few people have read the books that made that name famous! A great new series of reprints aims to correct that.
Read MoreBook Review: Kiev 1941
/In Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject
Read MoreBook Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics
/A massive collection of essays examining all aspects of animal rights.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: What's to Become of the Boy?
/A pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.
Read MoreBook 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.
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