Book Review: Hardwick Hall
/The great old fortress of good taste, Hardwick Hall, is the focus of a beautiful new anthology of essays on the place's storied art and architecture
Read MoreBook Review: William the Conqueror
/The latest volume in the Yale English Monarchs series is a hefty new biography of the man who started the whole series in the first place: William the Conqueror
Read MoreBook Review: Montaigne
/An English-language translation of a monumental biography of the founder of modern essay form urges readers to remember the man, not the legend.
Read MoreBook Review: Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms
/Down below the sidewalks of London, a warren of secret rooms housed the war effort while bombs were falling on the city; a lavish new book tours the war rooms.
Read MoreBook Review: Three Days in January
/As a new book about Eisenhower and Kennedy makes clear, transitions of presidential power, especially between rival parties, have always been testy.
Read MoreBook Review: The House of the Dead
/Long before the Soviet gulag, Russian dissidents, criminals, and political exiles were sent to the vast frozen wasteland of Siberia. A grim new book tells their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: The Egyptians
/The Egyptian Revolution and its cataclysmic aftermath forms the subject of a riveting new book by a journalist and keen-eyed witness.
Read MoreBook Review: Falling Ill
/From the late and much-honored poet CK Williams, one final work
Read MoreBook Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
/The famed writer of "You Know Me Al" was also a life-long prolific deadline writer. An invaluable new book collects the journalism of Ring Lardner.
Read MoreBook Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: Son of Superman
/In the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
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