Book Review: Barbarian Days
/Veteran New Yorker writer William Finnegan has written a captivating memoir of surfing and growing up
Read MoreBook Review: The Dinosaur Lords
/On the world of Paradise, the wars of dynasties are fought on battlefields by knights mounted on dinosaurs
Read MoreBook Review: Voices in the Ocean
/A lively new book explores the minds and behaviors of many of Earth's cetaceans
Read MoreBook Review: The President and the Apprentice
/The settled opinion of historians has always been that President Eisenhower personally hated his vice president, Richard Nixon; a vigorous, unmissable new book tries to set that record straight
Read MoreBook Review: Hirohito's War
/A massive new history details the war in the Pacific Theater during WWII
Read MoreBook Review: Where Are My Books?
/One by one, young Spencer's books are disappearing at night - can he figure out where they're going before they're all gone?
Read MoreBook Review: The Meaning of the Library
/A new book celebrating the library's thousands of years of history and constantly-changing cultural role is filled with sharp essays
Read MoreBook Review: Voltaire's Revolution
/For the better part of a century, Voltaire waged a sometimes solitary battle against the iniquities of organized religion. A great new book brings together fresh translations of some of the philosopher's most biting works.
Read MoreBook Review: The Real Lives of Roman Britain
/Archeological research has uncovered more than ever about the ordinary men and women who lived in Britain during the centuries of Roman occupation. A lively new book assesses what we know
Read MoreBook Review: The Blooding
/Matthew Hawkwood, James McGee's super-competent soldier-turned-spy, returns in another adventure, this time trapped in America during the War of 1812
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers in Blood
/In the latest Roman historical novel from old pro Simon Scarrow, two heroic legionaries are chasing an infamous local warlord in Britannia - and facing treachery from within their own ranks
Read MoreBook Review: The Eagle in Splendour
/"How a Court LOOKS," remarked a courtier to one of England's more successful modern-day monarchs, "is at least as important as how a Court WORKS." A re-issued study from Philip Mansel looks at form and function in the court of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read MoreBook Review: For God and Kaiser
/"Austria," quipped Talleyrand, "has the tiresome habit of always being beaten" - but Richard Bassett's vigorous new history of the Imperial Austrian Army begs to differ!
Read MoreBook Review: Braddock's Defeat
/A French army and a British army stumble upon each other in the wilderness of the New World, and their conflict changes the nature of the world's biggest war
Read MoreBook Review: Rome's Revolution
/The epic change in ancient Rome from a Republic to an Empire hinged on one man: Julius Caesar. A new history tells the familiar story.
Read MoreBook Review: The Two-State Delusion
/A veteran state conflict analyst looks at the mother of such conflicts: the long strife between Israel and Palestine
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Leaves Falling
/A teenager in Kyoto tries to face the last months of his life as a samurai would - with a little help from his friends
Read MoreBook Review: The Meursault Investigation
/The famous bloody encounter at the center of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger is re-imagined from a new perspective in Kamel Daoud's widely-praised debut
Read MoreBook Review: The Black Coat
/In the wake of Bangladesh's bloody Liberation War, a hapless nonentity suddenly finds himself impersonating a beloved national leader
Read MoreBook Review: Sicily
/Veteran historian John Julius Norwich attempts to cram over 800 years of Sicilian history into 300 pages - and because he's John Julius Norwich, he very nearly succeeds
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