Book Review: Queen Anne
/The much-vexed life of the last Stuart monarch gets a gripping, electrifyingly good new examination
Read MoreBook Review: Jack London, An American Life
/A new life of Jack London - by the world's foremost authority on the man's life and work.
Read MoreBook Review: My Crazy Century
/Now at last in an English translation: the heart-breaking, history-making memoir of the world's greatest Czech writer
Read MoreBook Review: Jefferson and Hamilton
/A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
Read MoreBook Review: The Letters of T. S. Eliot
/The exhaustive Yale edition of the complete correspondence of T. S. Eliot reaches a very busy period in the life of Eliot the editor and businessman, working away at the center of a vast and fascinating literary world
Read MoreBook Review: Benjamin Britten - A Life For Music
/The great - and problematic - 20th century composer gets a broad-minded and intensely sensitive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka - The Years of Insight
/The latest volume in the author's magnificent multi-volume biography covers the last years of Kafka's life - years marked by passionate affairs, political upheavals, and the shadow of his final illness
Read MoreIn Paperback: Kafka - The Decisive Years
/Now in an attractive reprint from Princeton: the first volume in Reiner Stach's towering multi-volume biography of the 20th century's troubled literary godfather
Read MoreBook Review: Franz Kafka, The Poet of Shame and Guilt
/A short Kafka biography by a renowned historian makes some unconventional interpretations of the 20th century's most enigmatic writer
Read MoreBook Review: Nelson - The Sword of Albion
/A monumental deck-clearing two-volume biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson reaches its thundering conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: Edmund Burke, the First Conservative
/The so-called 'father of conservatism' gets an aphoristic new biography from a very interested party.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Glittering Prizes
/The great diplomat and statesman John Hay is the subject of a riveting new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Borgias
/They're history's most villainous family, adept at blackmail, poison, murder, and sacrilege - they even have their own TV series! But is it possible there's more bad press than bad people to the Borgia family? A fascinating new book takes the case back to the basics
Read MoreHeinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
/The authoritative new biography - now in an enormous paperback - of the architect of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution"
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Marcel Proust - A Life
/A splendid reissue of the definitive Marcel Proust biography attempts to show readers the jester, the critic, and the energetic editor in addition to the garrulous fop
Read MoreBook Review: Bolivar
/The "George Washington of South America" was far more complex and interesting than his familiar tag-line suggests - as a big, fantastic new biography makes abundantly clear
Read MoreBack in Paperback: The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
/David Halberstam's 1968 profile of candidate Robert Kennedy gets a new reprint for a new generation
Read MoreBook Review: Louis Agassiz
/He revolutionized modern science, and then modern science left him behind. Now a glowing new biography introduces him to a new generation.
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Alexander of Macedon
/One of the best - and certainly the most contentious - biographies of Alexander the Great gets an attractive new reprint.
Read MoreBook Review: Cezanne
/"I paint, I work, I am free of thought" said Cezanne, and his thoughtless paintings changed art forever. A cinematic new biography explores the man's life and art.
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