Book Review: Chasing the Phoenix
/Michael Swanwick's terrific new novel features a con artist and a genetically modified dog-man seeking riches and power in a post-post-apocalyptic China
Read MoreBook Review: Agents of Empire
/In the continents-spanning 16th-century clash between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a crucial role was played by Albania - and by two families at the heart of events
Read MoreBook Review: The Automobile Club of Egypt
/The celebrated author of "The Yacoubian Building" returns with another panoramic look at life in modern Egypt during a pivotal era
Read MoreBook Review: The Daughters
/In Adrienne Celt's remarkably rich debut novel, an opera singer is worried that the birth of her daughter has robbed her of her singing voice
Read MoreBook Review: The Trials
/In the wake of professional betrayal and global catastrophe, the heroes of Linda Nagata's "Red" Trilogy are confronted by a new threat as the series barrels on
Read MoreBook Review: Death in Florence
/At the end of the 14th century, Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar Savonarola began a series of clashes in palace and pulpit that would end up altering the course of the city's history. A lively new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Browsings
/Book critic Michael Dirda's latest collection offers more personal musings on the subject he loves most
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Salvaged Pages
/A new edition of this collection of Holocaust diaries by young people captures the voices and the worries of the Nazis' most innocent victims
Read MoreBook Review: Bismarck
/A newly-reprinted biography of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck is noticeably short - what kind of a job does it do?
Read MoreBook Review: Beirut, Beirut
/Bloomsbury publishes a lovely new English-language translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's great novel about the Lebanese Civil War
Read MoreBook Review: The Casualties
/You wouldn't bet on a little street in Edinburgh - or its eccentric inhabitants - surviving a series of world-battering catastrophes, but that's both the starting and the ending point of Nick Holdstock's fascinating first novel
Read MoreBook Review: After Nature
/In his brilliant new book, Jedediah Purdy argues that humanity must face the collapse of nature using the three tools it knows best: politics, policy, and cold, hard cash
Read MoreBook Review: Under Tiberius
/In a dusty Vatican archive, an ancient manuscript is found that could change the world. Or whatever.
Read MoreBook Review: No. 4 Imperial Lane
/The woes of empire and the decline of the aristocracy form the backdrop for Jonathan Weisman's smart and moving debut novel, set in Thatcher's England.
Read MoreBook Review: Still Life Las Vegas
/In this funny and touching debut, a young man's search for his missing mother leads to unexpected discoveries amid the lights of Las Vegas
Read MoreBook Review: The Madagaskar Plan
/In an alternate history in which an undefeated Nazi Germany controls vast portions of Africa, a cast of old friends and enemies come together amid rumors of a devastating new kind of bomb ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Red
/The hero of Linda Nagata's nifty new series is hard-wired to his battle-armor ... but is something else hiding in the connection?
Read MoreBook Review: Under Another Sky
/Part history, part travel guide, part novel - a wonderful new book takes readers on a tour of Roman Britain
Read MoreBook Review: Pedigree
/Yale University Press publishes a 2005 memoir by the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
Read MoreBook Review: Ashoka in Ancient India
/The great ancient Indian emperor Ashoka gets a splendid new biography that attempts to divine the man at the heart of the legend
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