Book Review: Superman - A Celebration of 75 Years
/DC Comics rolls out a lovely anthology of some high points in the long career of the Man of Steel
Read MoreAge of Yeats!
/Our book today is a neat little pocket-sized 1963 paperback called Age of Yeats, part of an old Dell series called “Laurel Masterpieces of World Literature.” That series was actually full of nifty volumes, anthologies so well-assembled that you’ll find yourself returning to them time and again – if you can, that is: the whole [...]
Read MoreStrange Reckoning
/She was the daughter, the sister, and the wife of kings in one of England's most turbulent periods, but Alison Weir's new biography is the first to make us feel we really know Elizabeth of York.
Read MoreHappy New Year, 2013!
/Well, obviously our mighty Year’s Best – and Worst – Books cataclysm wraps up my book-blogging for 2013, but I couldn’t fade into the sunset for the next few days without extending my heartfelt thanks to all of you out there reading Stevereads, whether you’ve been checking in for a few months or a few years [...]
Read MoreBook Review: Beautiful Old Dogs
/Touching photos and essays testify to the wonder of old dogs
Read MoreBook Review: Two Serpents Rise
/In a fantasy version of LA where sorcerous captains of industry wage war against the gods, a conflicted young 'risk manager' works to prevent a dark plot from poisoning millions of people
Read MoreBook Review: Bitter Spirits
/A sultry medium in 1920s San Francisco meets an alluring scapegrace laboring under a malicious hex
Read MoreBook Review: The Trouble with Princesses
/A princess without a country makes the audacious decision to take a lover, despite anything society might think.
Read MoreBook Review: Unbreakable
/An elite secret black ops team must mobilize to find one of their own in Stephanie Tyler's latest "Section 8" novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
/From Hercules to Theseus to Odysseus to Socrates, the heroes of ancient Greek mythology bring an entire lost world to vivid life. A new book goes to great - even heroic - lengths to decode those heroes
Read MoreBook Review: The Gap
/That age-old happy nostrum - the inherent superiority of human beings over all other life in the universe - gets its scientific Sunday best polished and pressed
Read MoreBook Review: Paper Dreams
/Feel like starting up a literary magazine? Why the hell not!
Read MoreBook Review: Latin - Story of a World Language
/One of the biggest success stories among the world's language gets a genial history
Read MoreBook Review: Japan 1941
/A vivid look at the culture and politics that led to Japan's ill-fated attack on Pearl Harbor
Read MoreBook Review: The Devil That Never Dies
/The controversial historian returns with a new alarm-call about the rise of international antisemitism
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Prince
/A group of extra-dimensional retainers must protect their exiled prince - but he doesn't know who he is, and they don't either.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of the Curl
/Two professors - with oceanside views - take readers on a hundred-year history of the world's coolest sport
Read MoreBook Review: Verdun
/A prickly-smart new analysis contends that we too easily simplify the great World War I battle of Verdun
Read MoreBook Review: Holding On Upside Down
/One of the 20th Century's greatest poets finally gets her definitive biography
Read MoreBest Books of 2013: Nonfiction!
/The whole category of “nonfiction” is necessarily an evil enough hodge-podge (in bookstores, a special sneer is reserved for those customers clueless enough to come in asking for “the nonfiction section”), and I’m perfectly aware that some of the books on this list could migrate to other lists without too much cognitive dissonance. Nevertheless, the [...]
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