Book Review: The First Nazi
/How much of the evil of Adolf Hitler can be traced to an infamous general of the First World War?
Read MoreBook Review: Valiant Ambition
/The infamous treachery of Benedict Arnold gets a vigorous and richly detailed new retelling by the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea.
Read MoreBook Review: Running with Rhinos
/The heroic efforts to save the lives of the black rhinos of Zimbabwe are at the heart of a thrilling new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Habsburg Empire: A New History
/A new history takes a thought-provokingly centralist look at the oft-chronicled Habsburg Empire
Read MoreBook Review: Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty
/A noted feminist social critic looks back on her long friendship with the great Betty Friedan.
Read MoreBook Review: The President's Book of Secrets
/A fascinating new book presents readers with a bounty of stories surrounding the daily intelligence-services briefing given to US Presidents
Read MoreBook Review: History and Presence
/An invigorating new study of the real presence of the divine in the mundane workings of organized religion
Read MoreBook Review: Waiting for the Past
/The latest volume from deceptively erudite Australian poet Les Murray
Read MoreBook Review: Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
/America's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay gets an elegant new Selected Poems volume
Read MoreBook Review: The Empire That Would Not Die
/Abandoned by the West and battered by the Islamic caliphate, the eastern Roman Empire shrank and withdrew but did not fall - a new history asks why
Read MoreBook Review: The Fever of 1721
/When smallpox struck the city of Boston in 1721, battle lines were drawn over how to deal with it - and strange alliances formed
Read MoreBook Review: Tales from the Long Twelfth Century
/At the center of a lively, personality-driven new book about the twelfth century is the contentious family of King Henry II
Read MoreBook Review: Thoreau's Wildflowers
/A lovely new volume offers a selection of Henry David Thoreau's heartfelt writings about flowers
Read MoreBook Review: Dante - The Story of His Life
/A thorough new biography explores the life of the great Florentine poet in detail
Read MoreBook Review: Eruption
/Nearly 40 years ago, Washington State's Mount St. Helens volcano erupted, killing 57 people and spewing hundreds of tons of molten ash into the atmosphere. A gripping new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: Pollination Power
/Birds, bees, mice, bats - a wide array of animals are crucial to the pollination of the plants of the world. A stunning new book shows us their world.
Read MoreBook Review: Baby Birds
/An enterprising bird-artist takes readers inside the nests of a dozen species
Read MoreBook Review: Louisa
/A smart and lively new biography of the wife of President John Quincy Adams
Read MoreA smart and appealingly complex new biography of America's contentious sixth president
Read MoreBook Review: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
/A new biography of Julia Ward Howe shows how much more there was to her story than the writing of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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