Book Review: The Conquering Tide
/The fierce, epic height of WWII's Pacific War is the subject of Ian Toll's gripping new volume
Read MoreBook Review: A Little History of the United States
/The latest volume in Yale University Press's series of short histories is a quick yet authoritative overview of United States history
Read MoreBook Review: Bosworth 1485
/A taut new history of Richard III and the battle in which he lost everything - and the new Tudor dynasty gained everything
Read MoreBook Review: Among the Bone Eaters
/In the Ethiopian city of Harar, spotted hyenas roam the streets at night, cleaning up the day's garbage better than any human crew could do. A fascinating new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: The Double Life of Liliane
/National Book Award-winner Lily Tuck's latest book attempts an experiment at dramatizing her memories of her early years
Read MoreBook Review: Building Art
/The world's most famous architect gets his first full-length biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
/They slit throats; the bombed churches; they were none too mentally stable - and these were the GOOD guys
Read MoreIn Paperback: Walden's Shore
/Now in paperback: a thorough - and thoroughly interesting - study of the actual physical dimensions of the little pond whose name Henry David Thoreau made immortal
Read MoreBook Review: Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Major Poetry
/A thorough new study of the poetry of the great transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read MoreBook Review: The Storms of War
/In historian Kate Williams' new novel, a wealthy family in England confronts the realities of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: A Clue to the Exit
/A sarcastic screenwriter learns he has only six months to live in this reprinted novel from Edward St. Aubyn from 2000
Read MoreBook Review: Mycroft Holmes
/A debut adventure starring the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes
Read MoreBook Review: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
/In the vastness of the world's oceans, some mammals have evolved brains and language ... and culture? A fascinating new book looks at the inner lives of whales and dolphins
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