Book Review: The Fifty-Year Mission
/On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.
Read MoreBook Review: Marked for Death
/A gritty and gripping new history tells the story of the dawn of aerial warfare.
Read MoreBook Review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
/A crippled young man in a forgotten hospital has armored himself against the rotten hand he's drawn in life - until he falls in love with a new patient.
Read MoreBook Review: Ghost Talkers
/The heroine of Mary Robinette Kowal's enchanting new novel is doing her part for the WWI war effort - by debriefing the spirits of soldiers killed on the battlefield
Read MoreBook Review: The Nix
/The life of the main character in Nathan Hill's stunning debut novel is turned upside-down when the madwoman on the nightly news turns out to be his mother.
Read MoreBook Review: Dawn of the Dog
/A new book takes a revisionist look at the evolutionary history of the dog.
Read MoreBook Review: The Story of Egypt
/A new book tells the history of ancient Egypt, from the mists of pre-history to the familiar tale of Cleopatra
Read MoreBook Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction
/The latest entry in the epic "Year's Best Science Fiction" series by editor Gardner Dozois features everything from Venusian monsters to telepathic food - with stops along the way for planetary warfare, quantum piracy, and the end of the world as we know it.
Read MoreBook Review: The Castle of Kings
/A strong-willed young woman and a visionary young man navigate a 16th-century Germany in chaos in order to find their destiny
Read MoreBook Review: Pound for Pound
/An emotionally and physically damaged young woman finds healing by helping some of the most unlucky dogs on Earth in Shannon Kopp's touching new book
Read MoreBook Review: Frederick Barbarossa
/The legendary life of the great Frederick Barbarossa is grounded in facts and records in a deeply impressive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Franz Liszt
/A new single-volume biography captures the oversized life of legendary composer and pianist Franz Liszt
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Compromises
/A brilliant new book explores the alternatives to brute force the Nazi regime often employed to get its way
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Soldiers
/A big new history of the German Army during World War II takes a complex and multifaceted look at the men who fought for the Reich
Read MoreBook Review: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
/A new dual biography of poet and translator accompanies a new illustrated edition of the famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Read MoreBook Review: Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment
/Long before Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, Russian thinkers and writers were haltingly, passionately fashioning their own peculiar brand of Enlightment
Read MoreBook Review: Melville in Love
/Did an unconventional Berkshires beauty provide the inspiration for Herman Melville to write his great masterpiece? A new book thinks it would be lovely to think so.
Read MoreBook Review: Louis XVI
/The glittering Bourbon king who lost his head to the Revolution gets a sumptuous newly-expanded biography
Read MoreBook Review: Toward Democracy
/The long and constantly-unfinished process of democracy is given a sprawling examination in James Kloppenberg's new book.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cavendon Luck
/The Second World War closes in on the two families bravely struggling to keep Cavendon Hall alive.
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