Book Review: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
/A legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreA legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreAccording to one historian, the battle commemorated in a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci was the little-known birth-moment of the Renaissance
Read MoreThe Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreThe brutal 1980s war between Iran and Iraq gets a definitive new history
Read MoreA family from New Jersey moves to the wilds of Minnesota and learns a whole new way to think about food
Read MoreThe open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief
Read MoreA huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people
Read MoreFor centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.
Read MoreA stirring account of one wild family of critically-endangered Siberian tigers
Read MoreThe in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!
Read MoreA fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries
Read MoreA sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreA slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter
Read MoreNovelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists
Read MoreA wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States
Read MoreA gorgeously-illustrated new book looks at the long and gaudy history of life on Earth
Read MoreA forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich
Read MoreA new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War
Read MoreAn ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way
Read MoreA new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
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