Book Review: The Crimes of Elagabalus
/A solid, enjoyable new biography of one of ancient Rome's most notorious gay teen-emperors!
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite
/A big new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, whose vivid and dreamlike artwork caught the sentimentality of his time and shaped it to immortal perfection.
Read MoreBook Review: Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes
/A perceptive new study of the effects a cataclysmic earthquake had on a tottering regime in China
Read MoreBook Review: The Forest Unseen
/An enchantingly small focus creates a modern-day masterpiece of natural history
Read MoreBook Review: Restless in the Grave
/The latest Kate Shugak murder mystery features small town Alaska, bush pilot sabotage, and one heck of a sexy state trooper!
Read MoreBook Review: Tutankhamen
/Any new study of Tutankhamen faces an array of obstacles - some more familiar than others.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Hemlock Cup
/Now in paperback: one of the best books ever written about the life and times of Socrates
Read MoreBook Review: The Inquisitor
/A new thriller features an implacable torturer-for-hire as its problematic protagonist.
Read MoreBook Review: The Lost History of 1914
/A new look at the outbreak of World War I reminds readers of the individual people involved - and presents some intriguing might-have-beens.
Read MoreIn Theaters: John Carter
/The new movie "John Carter" has spawned a dozen reprints of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs stories - including the official Disney tie-in featuring both the screenplay novelization and the debut ERB novel
Read MoreNow in Paperback: A Princess of Mars
/Edgar Rice Burroughs' debut John Carter novel, "A Princess of Mars," gets a vivid new comic book adaptation
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The View From Lazy Point
/A paperback reprint of a modern nature classic
Read MoreNow in Paperback: DC Universe Legacies
/A new paperback edition of the once-definitive history of DC superheroes
Read MoreBook Review: Reading for My Life
/A new anthology samples from a lifetime's publications of a beloved critic
Read MoreBook Review: History of a Pleasure Seeker
/In Richard Mason's latest novel, a handsome, articulate young man takes a job with a wealthy family as tutor for their troubled son
Read MoreQueen Elizabeth the First
/Elizabeth Hardwick joined the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan with every intention of making her mark upon it - which she did, in review after inimitable review, taking American book-discourse to levels and places it had never reached before
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