Book Review: The Inquisitor
/A new thriller features an implacable torturer-for-hire as its problematic protagonist.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost History of 1914
/A new look at the outbreak of World War I reminds readers of the individual people involved - and presents some intriguing might-have-beens.
Read MoreIn Theaters: John Carter
/The new movie "John Carter" has spawned a dozen reprints of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories - including the official Disney tie-in featuring both the screenplay novelization and the debut ERB novel
Read MoreNow in Paperback: A Princess of Mars
/Edgar Rice Burroughs' debut John Carter novel, "A Princess of Mars," gets a vivid new comic book adaptation
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The View From Lazy Point
/A paperback reprint of a modern nature classic
Read MoreNow in Paperback: DC Universe Legacies
/A new paperback edition of the once-definitive history of DC superheroes
Read MoreBook 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.
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