Book Review: A Talent for Murder
/Andrew Wilson's new novel dramatizes the real-life ten-day disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie nearly a century ago - and adds a touch of murder.
Read MoreBook Review: Commander in Chief
/In 1943, American President Franklin Roosevelt faced the strong-willed rivalry of his own nominal ally, Winston Churchill
Read MoreBook Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 2015
/The latest monumental anthology from Gardner Dozois of the best the sci-fi genre has to offer
Read MoreBook Review: Rust
/Every day, all around us, everything solid is inexorably corroding into powder. A game new book takes readers inside the surprisingly fascinating world of rust
Read MoreBook Review: Taking on Theodore Roosevelt
/A lively, authoritative new book examines one of the darkest stains on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Read MoreBook Review: Glow
/Ned Beauman's new novel takes readers on a wild ride from London drug-raves to international conspiracies, with some extra-intelligent foxes thrown in along the way
Read MoreBook Review: A Bad Character
/A proper young woman in Delhi meets a slightly improper young man - and a tragic, mesmerizing love story is born in this accomplished debut
Read MoreBook Review: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure
/In 1503, the city of Florence commissioned two artists to paint the walls of their city hall - two men named Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. A new book assesses the after-effects of this greatest of all artistic competitions.
Read MoreComics: Action Comics - What Lies Beneath
/The revamped Man of Steel embarks on a new series of adventures in Action Comics
Read MoreBook Review: The Revenant
/The scout for a fur-trapping party in 1823 is mauled by a bear and left for dead - but he doesn't die, which is very bad news for the fur-trapping company in Michael Punke's super-effective novel
Read MoreBook Review: Dublin - The Making of a Capital City
/David Dickson's comprehensively researched, readable book details the long and complicated history of Dublin
Read MoreBook Review: American Apocalypse
/A new history presents a history of 20th-Century American radical evangelism that will go down very well on the Liberty University campus
Read MoreBook Review: Enter Pale Death
/An enormous, bad-tempered horse tramples to death the wife of its aristocratic owner - but Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard comes to suspect foul play in Barbara Cleverly's new mystery
Read MoreBook Review: Renegade Revolutionary
/He was ugly, ill-dressed, and eccentrically fond of dogs - but he was also the most experienced military man in the American colonies, restlessly chaffing under the command of George Washington. He was General Charles Lee, and a wonderful new book tells his story.
Read MoreBook Review: Chaucer's Tale
/Long before he would be venerated as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer had a really, really bad year. An engaging new book tells the story of how he coped - and the great work that followed.
Read MoreBook Review: The Life of Roman Republicanism
/A new book looks at the writings of Cicero, Sallust, and Horace to understand the mind of their times.
Read MoreBook Review: Massacre
/In 1871, thousands of aggrieved Parisians banded together to create an independent socialist community lodged inside their home city, and it functioned as a living dream - until it was brutally destroyed. A new book tells the story of the Paris Commune.
Read MoreBook Review: Chinese Love Poetry
/A pretty new anthology dips into the vast Chinese poetic tradition
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and Nazi Germany's War
/A revelatory new book explores the uneasy dealings the Third Reich had with the thousands of Muslims who suddenly found themselves under Nazi rule
Read MoreBook Review: The War of 1812
/A fiery new history seeks to reclaim the lost honor of both Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans
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