Book Review: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
/A legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreBook Review: The Day the Renaissance Was Saved
/According to one historian, the battle commemorated in a lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci was the little-known birth-moment of the Renaissance
Read MoreBook Review: Reading The Tale of Genji
/The Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreBook Review: The Iran-Iraq War
/The brutal 1980s war between Iran and Iraq gets a definitive new history
Read MoreBook Review: In Winter's Kitchen
/A family from New Jersey moves to the wilds of Minnesota and learns a whole new way to think about food
Read MoreBook Review: Battling the Gods
/The open, even evangelical atheism of the 21st century might be new, but as a sparkling-good new book demonstrates, atheism itself is as old as belief
Read MoreBook Review: The English and Their History
/A huge - and hugely enjoyable - new book details the long history of the English people
Read MoreBook Review: London Fog
/For centuries, "pea-soup" fog was synonymous with the city of London; a lively new book tells its story.
Read MoreBook Review: Great Soul of Siberia
/A stirring account of one wild family of critically-endangered Siberian tigers
Read MoreBook Review: City on a Grid
/The in-depth story of how it came to be that the Bronx is up and the Battery's down - the grid system of Manhattan!
Read MoreBook Review: The Work of the Dead
/A fascinating new history details the changing job description of the dead-and-buried over the centuries
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreBook Review: Magna Carta
/A slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter
Read MoreBook Review: Keeping An Eye On Art
/Novelist Julian Barnes takes readers on a tour of some of his favorite French artists
Read MoreBook Review: Part of Our Lives
/A wonderful new book details the raucous past - and the complicated, vibrant present - of the public library in the United States
Read MoreBook Review: Evolution - The Whole Story
/A gorgeously-illustrated new book looks at the long and gaudy history of life on Earth
Read MoreBook Review: After Hitler
/A forensic and often quite moving new history of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich
Read MoreBook Review: The German War
/A new book brings to life the experiences of ordinary Germans during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Germany
/An ambitious new work of history charts the rise to victory of Nazi Germany - and deflates a few treasured myths along the way
Read MoreBook Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe
/A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
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