Drawn to Nature by Simon Martin
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A celebration of the artwork that’s attended Gilbert White’s odd masterpiece for centuries.
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Harsh Times and the “Fantastical Repudiation of Reality”
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The Nobel Laureate’s latest novel continues to blur the line between history and pure invention.
Read MoreThe Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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A new book cites 1851 as a key year in the career of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreThe Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward
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A new book on the complexities of how nonhuman animals communicate with each other.
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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
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The index at the back of the books you read has a fascinating history, as this terrific new book details.
Read MoreWe the Presidents by Ronald Gruner
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A new book looks at the presidential stories of the 20th & 21st centuries.
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Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker
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A YA novel in which time travel hastens the end of the world.
Read MoreThe Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
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In Benjamin Percy’s new novel, a broken family (and a broken world) deals with, among other things, weird fungi.
Read MoreSmall World by Jonathan Evison
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Jonathan Evison’s big new novel presents a panorama of the American experience.
Read MoreOn Freedom by Maggie Nelson
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On Freedom is the author’s process of “thinking aloud,” figuring things out.
Read MoreThe Starless Crown by James Rollins
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In this first volume in a new fantasy series, the moon is slowly but inexorably falling from the sky.
Read MoreThe Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimacek
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A review of the newly-translated novel by a celebrated Slovak playwright.
Read MoreThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway’s famous debut novel gets a Penguin Classics edition.
Read MoreBibliolepsy by Gina Apostol
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A award-winning novel about a young woman intoxicated by books.
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