Book Review: Britain's War, 1937-1941: Into Battle
/A lively new history of the years England fought alone against the might of Nazi Germany
Read MoreBook Review: Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
/The editors of Vanity Fair magazine delve into their century of writing to serve up dozens of their best writers writing about other writers.
Read MoreBook Review: Northmen
/A gripping new history tells the broader story of the Viking Era
Read MoreBook Review: Eyes on the Street
/A lively new biography tells the story of iconic urban visionary and outspoken cultural critic Jane Jacobs.
Read MoreBook Review: Tamil
/A dense yet lyrical new book tells the long, intricate life story of the Tamil language and Tamil literature
Read MoreBook Review: The Playful Little Dog
/Penguin Random House continues its re-issue series of classic little children's books.
Read MoreBook Review: Lusitania - The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
/Just over a century ago, the luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat with great loss of life, a disaster that, as a new book explains, re-shaped the world.
Read MoreThe beloved author of "The Egg and I" receives her first full-length biography
Read MoreBook Review: Cocteau - A Life
/The multi-faceted artist and director Jean Cocteau is the subject of a mammoth biography, newly translated into English
Read MoreBook Review: Selling Hitler
/A brilliant new study anatomizes the mechanisms of Nazi propaganda
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
Read MoreBook Review: If Venice Dies
/The tourist magnet of Venice faces an uncertain future on many fronts - but Salvatore Settis has many possible solutions in mind ...
Read MoreBook Review: Where Song Began
/The overflowing diversity of Australian bird life is the subject of Tim Low's captivating new book
Read MoreBook Review: Why Birds Matter
/Who can measure the worth of a nightingale's song? Why scientists can, you silly thing!
Read MoreBook Review: ADHD Nation
/A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read MoreBook Review: August 1914
/Before the famous epic battles of the First World War, there were lesser-known but equally ferocious clashes that are often lost in the larger narrative. A short, powerful book seeks to redress that imbalance.
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Poldark
/The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face
Read MoreBook Review: Angelinetum and Other Poems
/Doctor and poet Giovanni Marrasio's verses receive an expert new edition from the Harvard's I Tatti Library series
Read MoreBook Review: America's Snake
/Snake expert Ted Levin argues in his captivating new book that the American rattlesnake is as misunderstood as it is miraculous.
Read MoreBook Review: The Accidental Life
/Veteran editor Terry McDonell writes a ribald memoir that's half storytelling and half tips of the trade
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