Book Review: Their Backs Against the Sea
/A ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreBook Review: The Half-Drowned King
/The first installment in a projected series about a wily Viking warrior, his leader - and the women in his life
Read MoreBook Review: The Seventh Function of Language
/Was the death of literary theorist Roland Barthes in 1980 the result of a simple traffic accident - or part of a deeper plot? Laurent Binet's new novel takes readers into the weird world of ginned-up semiology.
Read MoreBook Review: The Treaty of Versailles
/A new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: In the Highest Degree Tragic
/The doomed valor of the small, scrappy US Asiatic Fleet in the Pacific Theater, often overlooked in WWII histories, now gets an elaborate new chronicle.
Read MoreBook Review: Grace
/A young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.
Read MoreBook Review: Bed-Stuy is Burning
/A debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.
Read MoreBook Review: The Epiphany Machine
/A mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.
Read MoreBook Review: See What I Have Done
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The famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.
Read MoreBook Review: We Shall Not All Sleep
/The centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine
Read MoreBook Review: Patrick Henry
/A lavishly-detailed new biography tells the story of the Virginia plantation-owner and early voice for independence from Great Britain
Read MoreBook Review: The New Annotated Frankenstein
/Mary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.
Read MoreBook Review: Warner Bros
/The latest entry in Yale's "Jewish Lives" series is the story of Warner Brothers Studo, by the great film historian David Thomson
Read MoreBook Review: The Allies Strike Back
/A vivid new history recounts the resurgence of the Allies against the Germany war machine during the highest pitch of the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The White Road
/The quest for social media click-traffic leads a young video-maker to the heights of the world's deadliest mountain in Sarah Lotz's new thriller.
Read MoreBook Review: Heretics & Believers
/A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life
Read MoreBook Review: The Best Land Under Heaven
/A thorough and searching new book explores not only the tragic fate of the Donner Party but the dreams that motivated them in the first place.
Read MoreBook Review: Paradise Lost
/The newest biography of the Jazz Age bard tries to get at the man beneath the high-flying legends.
Read MoreBook Review: Ernest Hemingway
/The epic and tortured life of Ernest Hemingway is told with remarkable insight in a powerful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
/An intriguing new book charts the long, complicated, and surprisingly vital JFK memory-industry.
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