Book Review: The Fall
/Federal contractor Jack Taylor takes an unprecedented high-altitude space jump - but when he breaks the sound barrier and makes his landing, he finds himself in a different reality
Read MoreBook Review: Last First Snow
/In Max Gladstone's latest "Craft" sequence novel, what looks like a straightforward neighborhood gentrification suddenly threatens to unleash the wrath of the gods themselves
Read MoreBook Review: Beyond Words
/In his beautifully-written new book, ecologist Carl Safina takes a broader look at the emotional and mental lives of nonhuman animals
Read MoreBook Review: In a Dark Wood
/A professor of Italian clings to Dante's Divine Comedy when confronted with an unthinkable tragedy in his own life
Read MoreBook Review: Joan of Arc
/The half-legendary Maid of Orleans gets a refreshingly wide-angled new history from Helen Castor
Read MoreBook Review: The Quiet Man
/A memoir of the first President Bush, written by his former Chief of Staff
Read MoreBook Review: Palimpsest
/In a mere 200 pages on the history of writing, Matthew Battles takes readers from ancient China and Sumeria to Gutenberg to - oh my, are we out of time already?
Read MoreBook Review: Wolves on the Hunt
/Far from the popular image of ravenous killing machines, wolves are actually surprisingly cautious predators who carefully weigh the risks they take, as a stunning new study illustrates
Read MoreBook Review: Dark Orbit
/A distant planet crackling with "dark energy" holds mind-boggling secrets for the crew of humans sent to explore it
Read MoreBook Review: Pretty Is
/Years ago, two young girls were abducted and held for two months by a mysterious stranger; in the present, in Maggie Mitchell's terrific debut novel, these women are now confronted with the suspicion that a part of their childhood ordeal is very much alive.
Read MoreBook Review: Last to Die
/Military historian Stephen Harding tells the poignant story of the last soldier killed in World War II
Read MoreBook Review: Time Salvager
/In the future, a vast corporation sends operatives back in time to loot the past, and those operatives have one rule above all others: bring nobody back with you. When one of those operatives breaks that rule, Wesley Chu's novel takes off
Read MoreBook Review: The Lagoon
/When enigmatic aliens plunge down in the ocean off the coast of Nigeria, three very different humans encounter them - and watch as the world is changed forever
Read MoreBook Review: The Runes of Evolution
/Time and again in the history of life, environmental pressures and biological systems combine to produce the same adaptations in wildly different species and epochs. It's called convergent evolution, and Simon Conway Morris has written its grand opera.
Read MoreBook Review: The War at the Edge of the World
/A decorated Roman soldier accompanies a dangerous mission into barbarian territory in 4th century Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The Captive Condition
/The forgotten Midwestern town of Normandy Falls becomes the setting for an increasingly horrifying - and surreal - series of events in Kevin Keating's outstanding new novel
Read MoreBook Review: Hostile Takeover
/In "Hostile Takeover," Shane Kuhn provides a raucous follow-up to his popular novel "The Intern's Handbook"
Read MoreBook Review: The Insect Farm
/Two brothers - one simple-minded, the other quite possibly devious - are at the heart of Stuart Prebble's new thriller
Read MoreBook Review: The American Revolution
/Just in time for America's Independence Day, the Library of America presents its newest production: a two-volume collection of some of the pamphlets that so inflamed the colonial population in the decade leading up to the Revolution
Read MoreBook Review: The Summer of Good Intentions
/Three sisters and their various husbands and children gather at the family's inviting old Cape Cod vacation home, where they face drama, revelation, heartache, and maybe personal re-invention.
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