The Education of John Adams by R. B. Bernstein
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A new biography attempts to present a fully-rounded picture of America’s second President.
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I You We Them by Dan Gretton
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A big, involving new book ventures into the world of the people who authorize vast murders by paperwork, without ever dirtying their hands.
Read MoreFraternity by Ben Nugent
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A debut collection of short stories centering around a frat house, where boys and girls navigate the limbo between adolescence and adulthood.
Read MoreCross of Snow by Nicholas Basbanes
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A bestselling author turns his attention to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the great American poet of the 19th century, now largely forgotten.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another”
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An atmospheric mystery blending history and romance with a contemporary police investigation.
Read MoreThe Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
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While looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
Read MoreYoung Avengers by Gillen & McKelvie
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A new paperback collects one of the most enjoyable runs on Marvel’s “Young Avengers” comic.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes”
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A skillful whodunit populated by a motley assortment of vividly wrought characters.
Read MoreLost Companions by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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The bestselling writer on the emotional relationships between humans and their pets writes a new book about the endings of those relationships.
Read MoreNo More Giants
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An unimpeachable and provocative collection drawn from almost every one of Sondheim’s projects.
Read MoreThe Deviant's War by Eric Cervini
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A fascinating new book explores the fight for gay rights in pre-Stonewall America.
Read MoreThe Black Cabinet by Jill Watts
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A new book details the inner workings of the unofficial council that advised FDR on racial issues during the New Deal era.
Read MoreAlaric the Goth by Douglas Boin
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A biographical study of the man who sacked the city of Rome.
Read MoreThe Loeb Classical Livy, Books 23-25
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A new English-language translation of some of the most dramatic writing from Roman historian Livy.
Read MoreThe New Despotism by John Keane
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A politics professor puts forward a insightful, unsettling new concept of tyranny in the modern world.
Read MoreMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
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A genre-bending work of an author researching Carson McCullers and finding herself.
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Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
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A new book examines the worth - and even the possibility - of taking pleasure from an intellectual life.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: There is a fine line between a monster and a hero
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With her trademark fast pace, Jance has rendered a masterly study of the effects of grief, rage, and the power of forgiveness.
Read MoreTornado God by Peter Thuesen
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A new book looks at how American religions deal with devastating “acts of God”.
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