Book Review: The Vatican Princess
/A new historical novel joins the ranks of those trying to rehabilitate the reputation of poor Lucrezia Borgia
Read MoreBook Review: The Lightkeepers
/Many kinds of violence haunt a remote California island chain when a nature photographer takes a one-year assignment there
Read MoreBook Review: The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome
/Popular French science-fantasy writer Serge Brussolo gets makes his debut appearance in English with a story of men and women who treasure-hunt in the dreams of other people
Read MoreBook Review: Dog Run Moon
/The debut short story collection from a Montana fly-fishing guide
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Liar
/Nicholas Searle's debut novel stars a canny old swindler who may or may not have found has final, perfect mark
Read MoreBook Review: The Ex
/A name from a hotshot defense attorney's past comes back to haunt her when she discovers her ex is a suspect in a triple homicide
Read MoreBook Review: Lay Down Your Weary Tune
/An out-of-work musician is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a legendary blues singer, but the legend hides some grim new realities
Read MoreBook Review: Bull and Other Stories
/Misfits and battered believers fill the pages of Kathy Anderson's wise and funny debut
Read MoreBook Review: Jakob's Colors
/The Nazi slaughter of hundreds of thousands of European gypsies forms the grim backdrop to Lindsay Hawdon's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Bands of Mourning
/In the latest novel from hyper-prolific Brandon Sanderson, the vast mythos of his "Cosmere" is further expanded
Read MoreBook Review: What Belongs to You
/An American instructor in Bulgaria falls into a problematic infatuation with a rough-hewn rent-boy in Garth Greenwell's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Norton Critical Lazarillo de Tormes
/The great Renaissance classic gets a spryly-translated new Norton edition
Read MoreBook Review: Blood & Steel
/In the third century, the Roman Empire teetered on the brink of implosion, with one man after another claiming power - and Harry Sidebottom's "Throne of the Caesars" series transmutes it all into first-rate historical fiction
Read MoreBook Review: The Happy Marriage
/A bedridden famous painter reflects on his unhappy marriage - and his wife gets the last word
Read MoreBook Review: Only the Stones Survive
/In Morgan Llywelyn's latest novel, the gods and goddesses of ancient Ireland take center stage
Read MoreBook Review: The Gun
/A young man out for a nighttime walk in Tokyo finds a gun. Then he thinks about it all the time. Then he thinks about getting bullets for it. And then he thinks about firing it ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
/A legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreBook Review: Reading The Tale of Genji
/The Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreBook Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe
/A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
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