Book Review: Pious Fashion
/A new book looks at the intricate world of Muslim women's clothing fashions.
Read MoreBook Review: Lightning Men
/Racially charged 1950 Atlanta is the setting for Thomas Mullen's brutal, terrific new crime thriller.
Read MoreBook Review: The Templars
/The Knights Templar have been captured on stage, page, and screen countless times; a new book separates history from legend.
Read MoreBook Review: Purpose & Desire
/A new book stares into the divide between living and non-living matter and finds the darndest things staring back.
Read MoreBook Review: Bunny Mellon
/Renowned socialite Bunny Mellon, who made headlines for an entire century, gets a big, generous new biography.
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfinished Palazzo
/A small portion of the life of one famous Venetian palace is told through the lives of three remarkable women who ruled it in the 20th century.
Read MoreBook Review: Out of China
/The roots of new Chinese nationalism extend back through well over a century of foreign meddling, as a comprehensive new history shows.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cold War
/A massive new study looks at the Cold War as a world war, touching - and often toppling - governments far from Washington or Moscow.
Read MoreBook Review: The Witch
/Paganism scholar Ronald Hutton's fascinating new book delves into the long history of the witch in human societies.
Read MoreBook Review: The Republic For Which It Stands
/America in the sordid wilderness years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century is the focus of the newest volume in the mighty Oxford History of the United States.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Tomorrow
/The fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.
Read MoreBook Review: The Future Won't Be Long
/An '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"
Read MoreBook Review: The Massacre of Mankind
/"The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells gets an authorized sequel in which you-know-who are back for another shot at conquering the Earth.
Read MoreBook Review: Quakeland
/An enormous earthquake is an inevitable feature of America's near future, and yet as Kathryn Miles' gripping new book makes clear, the country is completely, willfully unprepared.
Read MoreBook Review: The Party
/A smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
Read MoreBook Review: Bush and Cheney
/One of the most outspoken critics of the official version of 9-11 now writes a wide-ranging assessment of the long-term consequences of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Read MoreBook Review: The Riviera at War
/An impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The World Broke in Two
/A new book contends that one particular year in the wake of the First World War changed the literary landscape forever.
Read MoreBook Review: One Summer Day in Rome
/The lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight in the Pacific
/A key turning-point in the Battle of the Pacific gets a richly anecdotal new history.
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