Book Review: Xerxes
/The great Persian King Xerxes gets a wonderfully sharp and detailed biography for Western readers
Read MoreBook Review: Winston Churchill Reporting
/While a young Winston Churchill was making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire, he was also reporting on himself making history during the waning years of the Victorian Empire. A new book tells the old story.
Read MoreBook Review: King John
/On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a spirited new biography looks at King John
Read MoreBook Review: The Year of Lear
/A new book looks at one tumultuous year in the life of William Shakespeare
Read MoreBook Review: Hell's Foundations Quiver
/In the latest of David Weber's "Safehold" novels, Industrial-Age technology is coming to a quasi-Renaissance world, ready or not
Read MoreBook Review: Cleopatra's Shadows
/An effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters
Read MoreBook Review: Napoleon - Soldier of Destiny
/The first volume of Michael Broers' new Napoleon biography follows its famous subject from obscure Corsican boyhood to the stage of world-wide fame.
Read MoreBook Review: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
/A big new volume commemorates a century of "Best American Short Stories," which began - as with all worthy things - in Boston a long time ago
Read MoreBook Review: The Secret Chord
/The author of such brilliant novels as "Year of Wonders" and "March" takes on the Biblical story of King David
Read MoreBook Review: The Ville Rat
/The odd couple military police sergeants Sueno and Bascom return in Martin Limon's gripping new mystery set in 1970s Korea
Read MoreBook Review: The Dogist
/Armed with camera and tennis balls, a young photographer takes informal portraits of the dogs he meets. The Instagram sensation "The Dogist" is now a book.
Read MoreBook Review: Quicksand
/A failed writer seizes on a most unlikely inspiration for his great book: the catastrophically unlucky life of his best friend
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
/A polite conversation by two intellectuals about an explosive subject: the rise of militant Islamic groups throughout the world, and the world's response
Read MoreBook Review: I Ching
/The ancient Chinese classic of divination gets a brisk new English-language translation
Read MoreBook Review: Washington
/The venerable sub-genre of the Washington, DC history gets a substantial new update
Read MoreBook Review: Apollo in the Grass
/A revelatory new volume brings to English-language readers a selection of the verses of St. Petersburg poet Aleksandr Kushner
Read MoreBook Review: Gallipoli
/The new entry in Oxford University Press' "Great Battles" series focuses on the long and potent afterlife of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Those We Left Behind
/In the latest crime novel from Stuart Neville, two young killers are getting paroled - much too soon for the son of their victim
Read MoreBook Review: Gamelife
/Growing up in suburban Illinois, author Michael Clune discovered the world of gaming - and nothing was ever the same again
Read MoreBook Review: The Murdstone Trilogy
/The author of several well-regarded but unprofitable novels about sensitive misfit boys turns to the industry's top money-maker: epic fantasy. Disaster promptly ensues.
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