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  • December 2024
    • Dec 8, 2024 The Divine Comedy, translated by Michael Palma Dec 8, 2024
    • Dec 3, 2024 Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy by Felicity Henderson Dec 3, 2024
    • Dec 2, 2024 The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher Dec 2, 2024
  • November 2024
    • Nov 29, 2024 Dear Unknown Friend by Alexis Peri Nov 29, 2024
    • Nov 27, 2024 Hungry Beautiful Animals by Matthew Halteman Nov 27, 2024
    • Nov 26, 2024 Book of Exercises II by George Seferis Nov 26, 2024
    • Nov 25, 2024 Vita Nuova by Dante, translated by Joseph Luzzi Nov 25, 2024
    • Nov 24, 2024 Orbital by Samantha Harvey & James by Percival Everett: Nov 24, 2024
    • Nov 23, 2024 At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney Nov 23, 2024
    • Nov 22, 2024 American Rapture by CJ Leede Nov 22, 2024
    • Nov 21, 2024 The Last Tsar by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Nov 21, 2024
    • Nov 20, 2024 Cassino '44 by James Holland Nov 20, 2024
    • Nov 18, 2024 Fires Seen from Space by Betsy Fagin Nov 18, 2024
    • Nov 15, 2024 The Endless Refrain by David Rowell Nov 15, 2024
    • Nov 14, 2024 Is Anyone Listening? by Denise Herzing Nov 14, 2024
    • Nov 12, 2024 Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones Nov 12, 2024
    • Nov 11, 2024 The Power and the Glory by Adrian Tinniswood Nov 11, 2024
    • Nov 11, 2024 Day Lasts Forever by Mario dell'Arco Nov 11, 2024
    • Nov 10, 2024 Republic by Alice Hunt Nov 10, 2024
    • Nov 8, 2024 Far District by Ishion Hutchinson Nov 8, 2024
    • Nov 5, 2024 The Courage of Birds by Pete Dunne Nov 5, 2024
    • Nov 2, 2024 The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Nov 2, 2024
  • October 2024
    • Oct 31, 2024 The Brothers Grimm by Ann Schmiesing Oct 31, 2024
    • Oct 26, 2024 A Few Words in Defense of Our Country by Robert Hilburn Oct 26, 2024
    • Oct 26, 2024 The Medieval Scriptorium by Sara Charles Oct 26, 2024
    • Oct 21, 2024 Beyond Power Transitions by Xinru Ma & David C. Kang Oct 21, 2024
    • Oct 20, 2024 Roman Year by Andre Aciman Oct 20, 2024
    • Oct 19, 2024 The Drowned by John Banville Oct 19, 2024
    • Oct 18, 2024 Vietnam: A Military History by Geoffrey Wawro Oct 18, 2024
    • Oct 17, 2024 The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere Oct 17, 2024
    • Oct 14, 2024 Adaptation by Anastasia Samoylova Oct 14, 2024
    • Oct 12, 2024 Violence in the Forum by Natale Barca Oct 12, 2024
    • Oct 11, 2024 The Clock in the Sun by Pierre Sokolsky Oct 11, 2024
    • Oct 5, 2024 The Talnikov Family by Avdotya Panaeva Oct 5, 2024
    • Oct 4, 2024 The Letters of Seamus Heaney Oct 4, 2024
    • Oct 1, 2024 Keeping the Faith by Brenda Wineapple Oct 1, 2024
  • September 2024
    • Sep 30, 2024 Reagan by Max Boot Sep 30, 2024
    • Sep 28, 2024 The Green Ages by Annette Kehnel Sep 28, 2024
    • Sep 27, 2024 A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler Sep 27, 2024
    • Sep 25, 2024 Capital by Karl Marx, translated by Paul Reitter Sep 25, 2024
    • Sep 23, 2024 The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons Sep 23, 2024
    • Sep 22, 2024 The Good Allies by Tim Cook Sep 22, 2024
    • Sep 21, 2024 Mapmatics by Paulina Rowinska Sep 21, 2024
    • Sep 18, 2024 A Day in September by Stephen Budiansky Sep 18, 2024
    • Sep 17, 2024 Playground by Richard Powers Sep 17, 2024
    • Sep 16, 2024 Is Earth Exceptional? by Mario Livio & Jack Szostak Sep 16, 2024
    • Sep 16, 2024 First Lady of Laughs by Grace Kessler-Overbeke Sep 16, 2024
    • Sep 14, 2024 The Bible: A Global History by Bruce Gordon Sep 14, 2024
    • Sep 14, 2024 Squanto by Andrew Lipman Sep 14, 2024
    • Sep 13, 2024 Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon Sep 13, 2024
    • Sep 11, 2024 What Nails It by Greil Marcus Sep 11, 2024
    • Sep 5, 2024 Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief by Ronald Hutton Sep 5, 2024
    • Sep 1, 2024 The Strategists by Phillips Payson O'Brien Sep 1, 2024
    • Sep 1, 2024 Rat City by Jon Adams & Edmund Ramsden Sep 1, 2024
  • August 2024
    • Aug 26, 2024 Kent State by Brian VanDeMark Aug 26, 2024
    • Aug 25, 2024 Hitler's People by Richard Evans Aug 25, 2024
    • Aug 24, 2024 Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell Aug 24, 2024
    • Aug 23, 2024 Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard by Mary Flannery Aug 23, 2024
    • Aug 21, 2024 Roy is Not a Dog by Daniel Newell Kaufman Aug 21, 2024
    • Aug 15, 2024 One Giant Leap by Thao Lam Aug 15, 2024
    • Aug 15, 2024 Hardy Women by Paula Byrne Aug 15, 2024
    • Aug 13, 2024 The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang Aug 13, 2024
    • Aug 13, 2024 Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor Aug 13, 2024
    • Aug 9, 2024 All the Rage by Virginia Nicholson Aug 9, 2024
    • Aug 5, 2024 Gaga's Mistake Day by Emma & Susan Straub Aug 5, 2024
    • Aug 3, 2024 Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen Aug 3, 2024
    • Aug 1, 2024 Sea Level by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Aug 1, 2024
    • Aug 1, 2024 City in Ruins by Don Winslow Aug 1, 2024
  • July 2024
    • Jul 30, 2024 Iron Imperator by Iskander Rehman Jul 30, 2024
    • Jul 28, 2024 The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn Jul 28, 2024
    • Jul 25, 2024 The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee Jul 25, 2024
    • Jul 24, 2024 Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis Jul 24, 2024
    • Jul 24, 2024 The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson Jul 24, 2024
    • Jul 23, 2024 Westlessness by Samir Puri Jul 23, 2024
    • Jul 22, 2024 Alexander at the End of the World by Rachel Kousser Jul 22, 2024
    • Jul 16, 2024 The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry Jul 16, 2024
    • Jul 7, 2024 Parade by Rachel Cusk Jul 7, 2024
    • Jul 2, 2024 The Presidents and the People by Corey Brettschneider Jul 2, 2024
    • Jul 1, 2024 Later Montale by Eugenio Montale Jul 1, 2024
  • June 2024
    • Jun 29, 2024 The Island by Nicholas Jenkins Jun 29, 2024
    • Jun 27, 2024 Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott Jun 27, 2024
    • Jun 27, 2024 The Unraveling by Bob Bauer Jun 27, 2024
    • Jun 24, 2024 The Throne by Franco Bernini Jun 24, 2024
    • Jun 24, 2024 Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton Jun 24, 2024
    • Jun 19, 2024 Old King by Maxim Loskutoff Jun 19, 2024
    • Jun 6, 2024 John Quincy Adams by Randall Woods Jun 6, 2024
    • Jun 4, 2024 The Explorers by Amanda Bellows Jun 4, 2024
  • May 2024
    • May 31, 2024 Sailing Alone by Richard J. King May 31, 2024
    • May 29, 2024 Outposts of Diplomacy by G. R. Berridge May 29, 2024
    • May 28, 2024 Write Like a Man by Ronnie Grinberg May 28, 2024
    • May 21, 2024 Massacre in the Clouds by Kim Wagner May 21, 2024
    • May 19, 2024 Look at the USA by Peter van Agtmael May 19, 2024
    • May 18, 2024 This Earthly Globe by Andrea di Robilant May 18, 2024
    • May 14, 2024 Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver May 14, 2024
    • May 12, 2024 Bloody Panico! by Geoffrey Wheatcroft May 12, 2024
    • May 9, 2024 The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones May 9, 2024
    • May 6, 2024 Power and Glory by Alexander Larman May 6, 2024
    • May 5, 2024 The Ant Collective May 5, 2024
    • May 3, 2024 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley May 3, 2024
    • May 2, 2024 The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson May 2, 2024
  • April 2024
    • Apr 29, 2024 Shylock's Venice by Harry Freedman Apr 29, 2024
    • Apr 26, 2024 To Be a Jew Today by Noah Feldman Apr 26, 2024
    • Apr 22, 2024 The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden Apr 22, 2024
    • Apr 21, 2024 Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss Apr 21, 2024
    • Apr 20, 2024 Hong Kong by Mikko Takkunen Apr 20, 2024
    • Apr 17, 2024 Audubon as Artist by Roberta Olson Apr 17, 2024
    • Apr 15, 2024 Silver by Rowan Ricardo Philipps Apr 15, 2024
    • Apr 13, 2024 Farnsworth's Classical English Argument Apr 13, 2024
    • Apr 10, 2024 The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz Apr 10, 2024
    • Apr 5, 2024 Tudor Networks of Power by Ruth Ahnert & Sebastian E. Anhert Apr 5, 2024
    • Apr 2, 2024 Pharmakon by Teju Cole Apr 2, 2024
  • March 2024
    • Mar 30, 2024 Death of a Spy by MC Beaton (with RW Green) Mar 30, 2024
    • Mar 27, 2024 The Hunter by Tana French Mar 27, 2024
    • Mar 27, 2024 The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell Mar 27, 2024
    • Mar 21, 2024 Keir Starmer by Tom Baldwin Mar 21, 2024
    • Mar 20, 2024 The Great Wave by Michiko Kakutani Mar 20, 2024
    • Mar 19, 2024 The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James Mar 19, 2024
    • Mar 17, 2024 The Formula by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg Mar 17, 2024
    • Mar 7, 2024 Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn Mar 7, 2024
    • Mar 6, 2024 The Last of Its Kind by Gisli Palsson Mar 6, 2024
    • Mar 5, 2024 Saturated Facts by Dr. Idrees Mughal Mar 5, 2024
    • Mar 1, 2024 Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines by Nicholas Money Mar 1, 2024
  • February 2024
    • Feb 29, 2024 The Fury by Alex Michaelides Feb 29, 2024
    • Feb 27, 2024 How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev Feb 27, 2024
    • Feb 26, 2024 Big Meg by Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery Feb 26, 2024
    • Feb 23, 2024 Time Stood Still by Paul Cohen-Portheim Feb 23, 2024
    • Feb 20, 2024 The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan Feb 20, 2024
    • Feb 19, 2024 The Qur'an translated by M.A.H. Habib & Bruce Lawrence Feb 19, 2024
    • Feb 12, 2024 A Nasty Little War by Anna Reid Feb 12, 2024
    • Feb 6, 2024 Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen Feb 6, 2024
    • Feb 3, 2024 It Takes a Rake by Anna Bennett Feb 3, 2024
    • Feb 2, 2024 Errand into the Maze by Deborah Jowitt Feb 2, 2024
    • Feb 1, 2024 A View of Venice, edited by Kristin Love Huffman Feb 1, 2024
  • January 2024
    • Jan 31, 2024 Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones Jan 31, 2024
    • Jan 29, 2024 The Longest Autumn by Amy Avery Jan 29, 2024
    • Jan 27, 2024 How To Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Galen and Katherine Van Schaik Jan 27, 2024
    • Jan 25, 2024 Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks Jan 25, 2024
    • Jan 24, 2024 The Mathematical Radio by Paul J. Nahin Jan 24, 2024
    • Jan 23, 2024 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino Jan 23, 2024
    • Jan 21, 2024 The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler Jan 21, 2024
    • Jan 20, 2024 The Writer as Illusionist by William Maxwell Jan 20, 2024
    • Jan 19, 2024 Who Owns This Sentence? by David Bellows & Alexandre Montague Jan 19, 2024
    • Jan 19, 2024 Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook Jan 19, 2024
    • Jan 18, 2024 The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks Jan 18, 2024
    • Jan 17, 2024 The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell Jan 17, 2024
    • Jan 16, 2024 Slow Down by Kohei Saito Jan 16, 2024
    • Jan 14, 2024 Death Under a Little Sky by Stig Abell Jan 14, 2024
    • Jan 14, 2024 Chasing Bright Medusas by Benjamin Taylor Jan 14, 2024
    • Jan 14, 2024 Red Memory by Tania Branigan Jan 14, 2024
    • Jan 13, 2024 Pure Wit by Francesca Peacock Jan 13, 2024
    • Jan 12, 2024 Inverno by Cynthia Zarin Jan 12, 2024
    • Jan 11, 2024 This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack Jan 11, 2024
    • Jan 10, 2024 Dante's New Lives by Elisa Brilli & Giuliano Milani Jan 10, 2024
    • Jan 9, 2024 Venice by Dennis Romano Jan 9, 2024
  • December 2023
    • Dec 16, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Nonfiction! Dec 16, 2023
    • Dec 15, 2023 The Worst Books of 2023: Nonfiction! Dec 15, 2023
    • Dec 14, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Fiction! Dec 14, 2023
    • Dec 13, 2023 The Worst Books of 2023: Fiction! Dec 13, 2023
    • Dec 12, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Biography! Dec 12, 2023
    • Dec 11, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: History! Dec 11, 2023
    • Dec 10, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Science! Dec 10, 2023
    • Dec 9, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Nature! Dec 9, 2023
    • Dec 8, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Historical Fiction! Dec 8, 2023
    • Dec 7, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Science Fiction and Fantasy! Dec 7, 2023
    • Dec 6, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Romance! Dec 6, 2023
    • Dec 5, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Mystery! Dec 5, 2023
    • Dec 4, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Thrillers! Dec 4, 2023
    • Dec 3, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction! Dec 3, 2023
    • Dec 2, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Literature in Translation! Dec 2, 2023
    • Dec 1, 2023 The Best Books of 2023: Reprints! Dec 1, 2023
  • November 2023
    • Nov 30, 2023 The Needle and the Lens by Nate Patrin Nov 30, 2023
    • Nov 30, 2023 The People's Hospital by Ricardo Nuila Nov 30, 2023
    • Nov 23, 2023 American Vikings by Martyn Whittock Nov 23, 2023
    • Nov 19, 2023 Lady Susan by Jane Austen Nov 19, 2023
    • Nov 12, 2023 The Handover by David Runciman Nov 12, 2023
    • Nov 8, 2023 Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway Nov 8, 2023
    • Nov 6, 2023 Party of One by Chun Han Wong Nov 6, 2023
  • October 2023
    • Oct 31, 2023 Ashes and Stones by Allyson Shaw Oct 31, 2023
    • Oct 30, 2023 Dinosaur Behavior by Michael Benton Oct 30, 2023
    • Oct 28, 2023 The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa Oct 28, 2023
    • Oct 27, 2023 In the Shadow of Fear by Nick Bunker Oct 27, 2023
    • Oct 26, 2023 Emperor of Rome by Mary Beard Oct 26, 2023
    • Oct 25, 2023 Sailing Alone: A History by Richard King Oct 25, 2023
    • Oct 18, 2023 Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox Oct 18, 2023
    • Oct 14, 2023 Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King by Michael Livingston Oct 14, 2023
    • Oct 13, 2023 Tremor by Teju Cole Oct 13, 2023
    • Oct 8, 2023 What the Bears Know by Steve Searles and Chris Erskine Oct 8, 2023
    • Oct 7, 2023 Penance by Eliza Clark Oct 7, 2023
    • Oct 6, 2023 The Emily Wilson Iliad Oct 6, 2023
    • Oct 5, 2023 The Birds of Yellowstone Oct 5, 2023
    • Oct 1, 2023 The Lights by Ben Lerner Oct 1, 2023
  • September 2023
    • Sep 30, 2023 Places We Left Behind by Jennifer Lang Sep 30, 2023
    • Sep 23, 2023 The Lives of Octopuses & Their Relatives by Danna Staaf Sep 23, 2023
    • Sep 19, 2023 The Pole by J.M. Coetzee Sep 19, 2023
    • Sep 16, 2023 On the Way to the End of the World by Adrianne Harun Sep 16, 2023
    • Sep 16, 2023 Fool by Peter Andersson Sep 16, 2023
    • Sep 10, 2023 Your Kingdom by Eleni Sikelianos Sep 10, 2023
    • Sep 5, 2023 Bismarck's War by Rachel Chrastil Sep 5, 2023
    • Sep 4, 2023 Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson Sep 4, 2023
    • Sep 1, 2023 Theoderic the Great by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer Sep 1, 2023
  • August 2023
    • Aug 28, 2023 High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt Aug 28, 2023
    • Aug 28, 2023 Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer by Lorraine Byrne Bodley Aug 28, 2023
    • Aug 24, 2023 President Garfield by C W Goodyear Aug 24, 2023
    • Aug 23, 2023 The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall Aug 23, 2023
    • Aug 21, 2023 The Blighted Stars by Megan O'Keefe Aug 21, 2023
    • Aug 19, 2023 Regime Change by Patrick Deneen Aug 19, 2023
    • Aug 16, 2023 The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle Aug 16, 2023
    • Aug 12, 2023 The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein Aug 12, 2023
    • Aug 11, 2023 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Aug 11, 2023
    • Aug 9, 2023 Art Review: After Impressionism Aug 9, 2023
    • Aug 5, 2023 The Individualists by Matt Zwolinski & John Tomasi Aug 5, 2023
    • Aug 3, 2023 The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger Aug 3, 2023
    • Aug 2, 2023 The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Aug 2, 2023
  • July 2023
    • Jul 31, 2023 The Parrot and the Igloo by David Lipsky Jul 31, 2023
    • Jul 27, 2023 The Undertow by Jeff Sharlet Jul 27, 2023
    • Jul 25, 2023 Koch Tease: on Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick Jul 25, 2023
    • Jul 21, 2023 Console by Colin Channer Jul 21, 2023
    • Jul 18, 2023 Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson Jul 18, 2023
    • Jul 14, 2023 Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G. Freedman Jul 14, 2023
    • Jul 12, 2023 The Nones by Ryan Burge Jul 12, 2023
    • Jul 10, 2023 The Boy in the Rain by Stephanie Cowell Jul 10, 2023
    • Jul 8, 2023 Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead Jul 8, 2023
    • Jul 6, 2023 Chaotic Good by Lee Klein Jul 6, 2023
    • Jul 5, 2023 Yellowface by RF Kuang and The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor Jul 5, 2023
  • June 2023
    • Jun 23, 2023 Palatine by Peter Stothard Jun 23, 2023
    • Jun 22, 2023 What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman Jun 22, 2023
    • Jun 20, 2023 Chain-Gang All-Stars Jun 20, 2023
    • Jun 19, 2023 Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski Jun 19, 2023
    • Jun 14, 2023 Orwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor Jun 14, 2023
    • Jun 13, 2023 Trust by Hernan Diaz Jun 13, 2023
    • Jun 13, 2023 The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Carolyne Larrington Jun 13, 2023
    • Jun 6, 2023 Be Mine by Richard Ford Jun 6, 2023
  • May 2023
    • May 30, 2023 The Middle Kingdoms by Martyn Rady May 30, 2023
    • May 29, 2023 Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway May 29, 2023
    • May 27, 2023 The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf May 27, 2023
    • May 24, 2023 Close to Home by Michael Magee May 24, 2023
    • May 23, 2023 Ramesses the Great by Toby Wilkinson May 23, 2023
    • May 22, 2023 The King's Pleasure by Alison Weir May 22, 2023
    • May 21, 2023 How Not To Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin May 21, 2023
    • May 20, 2023 Journeys of the Mind by Peter Brown May 20, 2023
    • May 19, 2023 American Breakdown by Jennifer Lunden May 19, 2023
    • May 11, 2023 Land of War by William Nester May 11, 2023
    • May 7, 2023 The Science of Reading by Adrian Johns May 7, 2023
  • April 2023
    • Apr 30, 2023 The Shotgun Conservationist by Brant MacDuff Apr 30, 2023
    • Apr 29, 2023 Tudor Children by Nicholas Orme Apr 29, 2023
    • Apr 26, 2023 Bruno Schulz by Benjamin Balint Apr 26, 2023
    • Apr 25, 2023 Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Apr 25, 2023
    • Apr 24, 2023 Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones Apr 24, 2023
    • Apr 22, 2023 George VI and Elizabeth by Sally Bedell Smith Apr 22, 2023
    • Apr 19, 2023 Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi Apr 19, 2023
    • Apr 18, 2023 Christendom by Peter Heather Apr 18, 2023
    • Apr 13, 2023 Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo Apr 13, 2023
    • Apr 10, 2023 Going Zero by Anthony McCarten Apr 10, 2023
    • Apr 8, 2023 Assyria by Eckart Frahm Apr 8, 2023
    • Apr 7, 2023 Portraits of Learned Men by Paolo Giovio Apr 7, 2023
    • Apr 3, 2023 The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry Shaw Apr 3, 2023
  • March 2023
    • Mar 31, 2023 The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy Mar 31, 2023
    • Mar 29, 2023 The Complete Tutankhamun by Nicholas Reeves Mar 29, 2023
    • Mar 29, 2023 Y/N by Esther Yi Mar 29, 2023
    • Mar 28, 2023 Body of Proof by Jeremiah Johnston Mar 28, 2023
    • Mar 26, 2023 Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo Mar 26, 2023
    • Mar 22, 2023 Movie Review: Pale Blue Eye Mar 22, 2023
    • Mar 21, 2023 Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America by Jeremy Jennings Mar 21, 2023
    • Mar 20, 2023 The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher Mar 20, 2023
    • Mar 20, 2023 Theater Review: Sleepova at the Bush Theatre Mar 20, 2023
    • Mar 16, 2023 Gravity's Rainbow at 50 Mar 16, 2023
    • Mar 10, 2023 Up With the Sun by Thomas Mallon Mar 10, 2023
    • Mar 9, 2023 The Reopening of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman Mar 9, 2023
    • Mar 7, 2023 Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby Mar 7, 2023
    • Mar 4, 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson Mar 4, 2023
    • Mar 1, 2023 A Damn Near Perfect Game by Joe Kelly Mar 1, 2023
  • February 2023
    • Feb 27, 2023 Continental Reckoning by Elliott West Feb 27, 2023
    • Feb 25, 2023 How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix Feb 25, 2023
    • Feb 20, 2023 Pharaohs of the Sun by Gu de la Boyere Feb 20, 2023
    • Feb 17, 2023 The Matter of Everything by Suzie Sheehy Feb 17, 2023
    • Feb 14, 2023 The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy Feb 14, 2023
    • Feb 8, 2023 On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger Feb 8, 2023
    • Feb 6, 2023 Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor Feb 6, 2023
    • Feb 4, 2023 The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty Feb 4, 2023
    • Feb 3, 2023 The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner Feb 3, 2023
  • January 2023
    • Jan 31, 2023 Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer by Richard Bradford Jan 31, 2023
    • Jan 30, 2023 Koala by Danielle Clode Jan 30, 2023
    • Jan 27, 2023 Remnants of Ancient Life by Dale Greenwalt Jan 27, 2023
    • Jan 25, 2023 Daodejing by Laozi, translated by Brook Ziporyn Jan 25, 2023
    • Jan 23, 2023 The Fall of Numenor, edited by Brian Sibley Jan 23, 2023
    • Jan 22, 2023 The Unfolding by AM Homes Jan 22, 2023
    • Jan 21, 2023 The Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, translated by Kurt Beals Jan 21, 2023
    • Jan 20, 2023 No Right To An Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones Jan 20, 2023
    • Jan 17, 2023 House of M Omnibus (Marvel Comics) Jan 17, 2023
    • Jan 13, 2023 Be Not Afraid of Life, edited by John Kaag & Jonathan Van Belle Jan 13, 2023
    • Jan 12, 2023 You Will Never Be Found by Tove Alsterdal Jan 12, 2023
    • Jan 10, 2023 The Deluge by Stephen Markley Jan 10, 2023
    • Jan 9, 2023 The Wandering Mind by Jamie Kreiner Jan 9, 2023
    • Jan 7, 2023 Tudor England by Lucy Wooding Jan 7, 2023
  • December 2022
    • Dec 20, 2022 No One Left To Come Looking For You by Sam Lipsyte Dec 20, 2022
    • Dec 6, 2022 Egypt's Golden Couple by John Darnell & Colleen Darnell Dec 6, 2022
  • November 2022
    • Nov 30, 2022 Lost in the Game by Thomas Beller Nov 30, 2022
    • Nov 25, 2022 Tutankhamun's Trumpet by Toby Wilkinson Nov 25, 2022
    • Nov 24, 2022 Lydia Maria Child by Lydia Moland Nov 24, 2022
    • Nov 19, 2022 Sunday Best By John Carey Nov 19, 2022
    • Nov 17, 2022 Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas Nov 17, 2022
    • Nov 15, 2022 Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by Amanda Podany Nov 15, 2022
    • Nov 12, 2022 Nero by Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth Nov 12, 2022
    • Nov 8, 2022 The Grand Affair by Paul Fisher Nov 8, 2022
    • Nov 6, 2022 The Library of America Don DeLillo Nov 6, 2022
  • October 2022
    • Oct 27, 2022 Wild New World by Dan Flores Oct 27, 2022
    • Oct 26, 2022 House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson Oct 26, 2022
    • Oct 23, 2022 The New Annotated Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oct 23, 2022
    • Oct 23, 2022 Grace by Cody Keegan Oct 23, 2022
    • Oct 22, 2022 Cold Spell by Todd Nelson Oct 22, 2022
    • Oct 21, 2022 Pandemic Politics by Gadarian, Goodman, and Pepinsky Oct 21, 2022
    • Oct 20, 2022 Divided We Fall by Alice Rivlin Oct 20, 2022
    • Oct 19, 2022 Theater Review: Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre Oct 19, 2022
    • Oct 17, 2022 To Sanctify the World by George Weigel Oct 17, 2022
    • Oct 16, 2022 Theater Review: Handbagged at the Kiln Theatre Oct 16, 2022
    • Oct 13, 2022 Waterloo Sunrise by John Davis Oct 13, 2022
    • Oct 10, 2022 Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Oct 10, 2022
    • Oct 8, 2022 The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Oct 8, 2022
    • Oct 6, 2022 Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya Oct 6, 2022
    • Oct 5, 2022 Funeral Train by Laurie Loewenstein Oct 5, 2022
    • Oct 4, 2022 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken Oct 4, 2022
    • Oct 4, 2022 Shy by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green Oct 4, 2022
    • Oct 3, 2022 Seeing Like An Artist by Lincoln Perry Oct 3, 2022
    • Oct 2, 2022 Two Degrees by Alan Gratz Oct 2, 2022
    • Oct 2, 2022 Feral City by Jeremiah Moss Oct 2, 2022
    • Oct 1, 2022 A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt Oct 1, 2022
  • September 2022
    • Sep 30, 2022 Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong Sep 30, 2022
    • Sep 29, 2022 Ruin by Leigh Seippel Sep 29, 2022
    • Sep 28, 2022 The Ransomware Hunting Team by Renee Dudley & Daniel Golden Sep 28, 2022
    • Sep 27, 2022 Like, Comment, Subscribe by Mark Bergen Sep 27, 2022
    • Sep 23, 2022 Theater Review: The Southbury Child Sep 23, 2022
    • Sep 22, 2022 Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf Sep 22, 2022
    • Sep 18, 2022 Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris Sep 18, 2022
    • Sep 15, 2022 Catholicism by John T. McGreevy Sep 15, 2022
    • Sep 14, 2022 Boy with the Bullhorn by Ron Goldberg Sep 14, 2022
    • Sep 8, 2022 A Man of Iron by Troy Senik Sep 8, 2022
    • Sep 6, 2022 The First Binding by R. R. Virdi Sep 6, 2022
    • Sep 4, 2022 Eliot After "The Waste Land" by Robert Crawford Sep 4, 2022
  • August 2022
    • Aug 30, 2022 A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis Aug 30, 2022
    • Aug 29, 2022 How Fast Did T. Rex Run? by David Hone Aug 29, 2022
    • Aug 26, 2022 In Hitler's Munich by Michael Brenner Aug 26, 2022
    • Aug 18, 2022 Memoirs by Robert Lowell Aug 18, 2022
    • Aug 15, 2022 Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes Aug 15, 2022
    • Aug 13, 2022 Platypus Matters by Jack Ashby Aug 13, 2022
    • Aug 10, 2022 After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Aug 10, 2022
    • Aug 7, 2022 The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer Aug 7, 2022
  • July 2022
    • Jul 25, 2022 The Wine-Dark Sea Within by Dhun Sethna Jul 25, 2022
    • Jul 21, 2022 Unsettled Land by Sam Haynes Jul 21, 2022
    • Jul 13, 2022 The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran Jul 13, 2022
    • Jul 13, 2022 Transformer by Nick Lane Jul 13, 2022
    • Jul 11, 2022 Atoms and Ashes by Serhii Plokhy Jul 11, 2022
    • Jul 11, 2022 The Discord of the Gods by Jenn Lyons Jul 11, 2022
    • Jul 7, 2022 Even the Darkest Night by Javier Cercas Jul 7, 2022
    • Jul 6, 2022 I Used To Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour Jul 6, 2022
    • Jul 5, 2022 Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle by Mohamed Leftah Jul 5, 2022
    • Jul 2, 2022 The Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Jul 2, 2022
  • June 2022
    • Jun 30, 2022 Feeding Washington's Army by Ricardo Herrera Jun 30, 2022
    • Jun 27, 2022 A Woman of Adventure by Annette Dunlap Jun 27, 2022
    • Jun 25, 2022 Sands of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Jun 25, 2022
    • Jun 24, 2022 1000 Years of Manga by Brigitte Koyama-Richard Jun 24, 2022
    • Jun 23, 2022 The Psalms by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jun 23, 2022
    • Jun 22, 2022 Penguin Classics Marvel Comics! Jun 22, 2022
    • Jun 20, 2022 Kesar and the Lullaby Birds by Aditi Oza Jun 20, 2022
    • Jun 18, 2022 The Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years by Gary Scharnhorst Jun 18, 2022
    • Jun 17, 2022 Leadership by Henry Kissinger Jun 17, 2022
    • Jun 16, 2022 Such a Beautiful Thing To Behold by Umar Turaki Jun 16, 2022
    • Jun 14, 2022 Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony Jun 14, 2022
    • Jun 6, 2022 The Complete Works of WH Auden: Poems, Volume I & II Jun 6, 2022
    • Jun 2, 2022 Theater Review: Straight Line Crazy Jun 2, 2022
    • Jun 1, 2022 After Steve by Tripp Mickle Jun 1, 2022
  • May 2022
    • May 31, 2022 Refugia Faith by Debra Rienstra May 31, 2022
    • May 30, 2022 Reprint: The Interrupted Journey by John Fuller May 30, 2022
    • May 26, 2022 The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray May 26, 2022
    • May 21, 2022 Theater Review: The Misfortune of the English and the End of the Night May 21, 2022
    • May 19, 2022 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart May 19, 2022
    • May 13, 2022 The Man Who Understood Democracy by Olivier Zunz May 13, 2022
    • May 11, 2022 Nazi Billionaires by David De Jong May 11, 2022
    • May 9, 2022 Theater Review: Henry IV May 9, 2022
    • May 6, 2022 City on Fire by Don Winslow May 6, 2022
    • May 4, 2022 Theater Review: The Straw Chair May 4, 2022
  • April 2022
    • Apr 30, 2022 M: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati Apr 30, 2022
    • Apr 26, 2022 American Stutter: 2019-2021 Apr 26, 2022
    • Apr 23, 2022 The New Science of the Enchanted Universe by Marshall Sahlins Apr 23, 2022
    • Apr 22, 2022 Theater Review: Scandaltown Apr 22, 2022
    • Apr 20, 2022 Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh Apr 20, 2022
    • Apr 15, 2022 Theater Review: The Merchant of Venice Apr 15, 2022
    • Apr 13, 2022 The Presidency of Donald Trump, edited by Julian Zelizer Apr 13, 2022
    • Apr 12, 2022 The Universe by Paul Murdin Apr 12, 2022
    • Apr 8, 2022 Theater Review: The 47th Apr 8, 2022
    • Apr 5, 2022 Sam Gunn, Jr. by Ben Bova Apr 5, 2022
    • Apr 3, 2022 I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein Apr 3, 2022
  • March 2022
    • Mar 31, 2022 Theater Review: Henry V Mar 31, 2022
    • Mar 28, 2022 The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith Mar 28, 2022
    • Mar 22, 2022 Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik Mar 22, 2022
    • Mar 14, 2022 Drawn to Nature by Simon Martin Mar 14, 2022
    • Mar 10, 2022 Mario Vargas Llosa: Harsh Times and the “Fantastical Repudiation of Reality” Mar 10, 2022
    • Mar 5, 2022 The Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Mar 5, 2022
    • Mar 3, 2022 The Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward Mar 3, 2022
  • February 2022
    • Feb 28, 2022 A Little Book About the Big Bang by Tony Rothman Feb 28, 2022
    • Feb 27, 2022 The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Feb 27, 2022
    • Feb 25, 2022 Trace & Aura by Patrick Boucheron Feb 25, 2022
    • Feb 19, 2022 Pure Colour by Sheila Heti Feb 19, 2022
    • Feb 17, 2022 Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan Feb 17, 2022
    • Feb 13, 2022 We the Presidents by Ronald Gruner Feb 13, 2022
    • Feb 9, 2022 Creating Q*bert by Warren Davis Feb 9, 2022
  • January 2022
    • Jan 30, 2022 A River Enchanted Jan 30, 2022
    • Jan 21, 2022 Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker Jan 21, 2022
    • Jan 17, 2022 The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy Jan 17, 2022
    • Jan 16, 2022 Small World by Jonathan Evison Jan 16, 2022
    • Jan 14, 2022 On Freedom by Maggie Nelson Jan 14, 2022
    • Jan 13, 2022 The Starless Crown by James Rollins Jan 13, 2022
    • Jan 12, 2022 The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimacek Jan 12, 2022
    • Jan 11, 2022 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Jan 11, 2022
    • Jan 10, 2022 Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol Jan 10, 2022
  • December 2021
    • Dec 24, 2021 Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Dec 24, 2021
    • Dec 22, 2021 Living Like a Tudor by Amy Licence Dec 22, 2021
    • Dec 20, 2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut Dec 20, 2021
    • Dec 18, 2021 Tropical Arctic by McElwain, Hill Donnelly & Glasspool Dec 18, 2021
    • Dec 17, 2021 Unmasking Sin by Mary Lancaster Dec 17, 2021
    • Dec 15, 2021 Miss Dior by Justine Picardie Dec 15, 2021
    • Dec 13, 2021 Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić Dec 13, 2021
    • Dec 12, 2021 A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris Dec 12, 2021
    • Dec 10, 2021 Wild Design by Kimberly Ridley Dec 10, 2021
    • Dec 8, 2021 The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy Dec 8, 2021
    • Dec 5, 2021 Solid Ivory by James Ivory Dec 5, 2021
    • Dec 4, 2021 The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun Dec 4, 2021
    • Dec 2, 2021 The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Dec 2, 2021
    • Dec 1, 2021 Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995 Dec 1, 2021
  • November 2021
    • Nov 28, 2021 Benedict XVI (Volume II) by Peter Seewald Nov 28, 2021
    • Nov 18, 2021 Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier Nov 18, 2021
    • Nov 17, 2021 The Rule of Laws by Fernanda Pirie Nov 17, 2021
    • Nov 12, 2021 Lord of the Rings: Illustrated by the Author Nov 12, 2021
    • Nov 6, 2021 Burning Boy by Paul Auster Nov 6, 2021
  • October 2021
    • Oct 29, 2021 Thirteen Cracks by Allan Lichtman Oct 29, 2021
    • Oct 27, 2021 Silverview by John Le Carré Oct 27, 2021
    • Oct 26, 2021 All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk Oct 26, 2021
    • Oct 23, 2021 The Ottomans by Marc David Baer Oct 23, 2021
    • Oct 22, 2021 Noble Ambitions by Adrian Tinniswood Oct 22, 2021
    • Oct 21, 2021 Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Oct 21, 2021
    • Oct 20, 2021 Killing John Wayne by Ryan Uytdewilligen Oct 20, 2021
    • Oct 13, 2021 Shelf Life by Nadia Wassef Oct 13, 2021
    • Oct 8, 2021 Liberalism in Dark Times by Joshua Cherniss Oct 8, 2021
    • Oct 5, 2021 When the Sahara Was Green by Martin Williams Oct 5, 2021
    • Oct 5, 2021 The Lost History of the Capitol by Edward Moser Oct 5, 2021
  • September 2021
    • Sep 26, 2021 Appleseed by Matt Bell Sep 26, 2021
    • Sep 15, 2021 Putting It Together by James Lapine Sep 15, 2021
    • Sep 15, 2021 Wildland by Evan Osnos Sep 15, 2021
    • Sep 13, 2021 Fuzz by Mary Roach Sep 13, 2021
    • Sep 9, 2021 Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Sep 9, 2021
    • Sep 8, 2021 Cross Examined by John W. Campbell Sep 8, 2021
    • Sep 2, 2021 Bright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate Sep 2, 2021
    • Sep 1, 2021 The Master by Christopher Clarey Sep 1, 2021
  • August 2021
    • Aug 26, 2021 Pessoa by Richard Zenith Aug 26, 2021
    • Aug 16, 2021 Hirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern Aug 16, 2021
    • Aug 14, 2021 Dark Persuasion by Joel Dimsdale Aug 14, 2021
    • Aug 7, 2021 The Contemporary American Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate Aug 7, 2021
  • July 2021
    • Jul 30, 2021 Pastoral Song by James Rebanks Jul 30, 2021
    • Jul 24, 2021 What We Owe Each Other by Minouche Shafik Jul 24, 2021
    • Jul 11, 2021 Birdpedia by Christopher Leahy Jul 11, 2021
    • Jul 10, 2021 Books Promiscuously Read by Heather Cass White Jul 10, 2021
    • Jul 9, 2021 Winning Independence by John Ferling Jul 9, 2021
    • Jul 5, 2021 Fox & I by Catherine Raven Jul 5, 2021
  • June 2021
    • Jun 20, 2021 The Indispensables by Patrick O'Donnell Jun 20, 2021
    • Jun 14, 2021 Everything Now by Rosecrans Baldwin Jun 14, 2021
    • Jun 11, 2021 Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane Jun 11, 2021
    • Jun 5, 2021 Dominus by Steven Saylor Jun 5, 2021
    • Jun 3, 2021 A Theater for Dreamers, by Polly Samson Jun 3, 2021
    • Jun 2, 2021 The Year of Our Love by Caterina Bonvicini Jun 2, 2021
  • May 2021
    • May 24, 2021 Exhale by David Weill May 24, 2021
    • May 14, 2021 Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman May 14, 2021
    • May 11, 2021 The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una McCormack May 11, 2021
    • May 2, 2021 The Age of Decadence by Simon Heffer May 2, 2021
  • April 2021
    • Apr 27, 2021 The Crown in Crisis by Alexander Larman Apr 27, 2021
    • Apr 24, 2021 Death with a Double Edge by Anne Perry Apr 24, 2021
    • Apr 23, 2021 Genesis by Guido Tonelli Apr 23, 2021
    • Apr 22, 2021 Places of Mind by Timothy Brennan Apr 22, 2021
    • Apr 11, 2021 A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill Apr 11, 2021
    • Apr 10, 2021 On the House by John Boehner Apr 10, 2021
    • Apr 3, 2021 Library of America E. O. Wilson Apr 3, 2021
  • March 2021
    • Mar 28, 2021 Breaking the Social Media Prism by Chris Bail Mar 28, 2021
    • Mar 22, 2021 Four Plays by Aristophanes Mar 22, 2021
    • Mar 21, 2021 Fulfillment by Alec MacGillis Mar 21, 2021
    • Mar 17, 2021 Revise by Pamela Haag Mar 17, 2021
    • Mar 12, 2021 Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris Mar 12, 2021
    • Mar 9, 2021 A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Mar 9, 2021
    • Mar 6, 2021 The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans Mar 6, 2021
    • Mar 3, 2021 Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder Mar 3, 2021
  • February 2021
    • Feb 28, 2021 The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery Feb 28, 2021
    • Feb 22, 2021 American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky Feb 22, 2021
    • Feb 14, 2021 The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund Feb 14, 2021
    • Feb 13, 2021 The Volga by Janet Hartley Feb 13, 2021
    • Feb 11, 2021 Strange Bedfellows by Ina Park Feb 11, 2021
    • Feb 7, 2021 Devils, Lust and Strange Desires by Richard Bradford Feb 7, 2021
    • Feb 4, 2021 Homo Irrealis by André Aciman Feb 4, 2021
    • Feb 1, 2021 A Most Peculiar Book by Kristin Swenson Feb 1, 2021
  • January 2021
    • Jan 31, 2021 The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene Jan 31, 2021
    • Jan 30, 2021 Ibsen's Kingdom by Evert Sprinchorn Jan 30, 2021
    • Jan 29, 2021 In Search of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy Jan 29, 2021
    • Jan 26, 2021 Shakespearean by Robert McCrum Jan 26, 2021
    • Jan 24, 2021 Social Chemistry by Marissa King Jan 24, 2021
    • Jan 20, 2021 The Crooked Path to Abolition by James Oakes Jan 20, 2021
    • Jan 19, 2021 Hello, Habits by Fumio Sasaki Jan 19, 2021
    • Jan 16, 2021 Idi Amin by Mark Leopold Jan 16, 2021
    • Jan 13, 2021 The Moreva of Astroreth by Roxanne Bland Jan 13, 2021
    • Jan 11, 2021 Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes Jan 11, 2021
    • Jan 8, 2021 Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel Jan 8, 2021
    • Jan 5, 2021 Irma Heldman Jan 5, 2021
    • Jan 4, 2021 Samuel Johnson: Selected Works Jan 4, 2021
  • December 2020
    • Dec 24, 2020 The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson Dec 24, 2020
    • Dec 19, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Fiction! Dec 19, 2020
    • Dec 18, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction! Dec 18, 2020
    • Dec 17, 2020 The Worst Books of 2020: Fiction! Dec 17, 2020
    • Dec 16, 2020 The Worst Books of 2020: Nonfiction! Dec 16, 2020
    • Dec 15, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Biography! Dec 15, 2020
    • Dec 14, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: History! Dec 14, 2020
    • Dec 13, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Historical Fiction! Dec 13, 2020
    • Dec 12, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Romance! Dec 12, 2020
    • Dec 11, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Thrillers! Dec 11, 2020
    • Dec 10, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Mysteries! Dec 10, 2020
    • Dec 9, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Science Fiction & Fantasy! Dec 9, 2020
    • Dec 7, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Science! Dec 7, 2020
    • Dec 5, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Nature! Dec 5, 2020
    • Dec 4, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction! Dec 4, 2020
    • Dec 3, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Literature in Translation! Dec 3, 2020
    • Dec 2, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Kids and Young Adult! Dec 2, 2020
    • Dec 1, 2020 The Best Books of 2020: Reprints! Dec 1, 2020
  • November 2020
    • Nov 27, 2020 Villa of Delirium By Adrien Goetz Nov 27, 2020
    • Nov 24, 2020 The Gull Next Door by Marianne Taylor Nov 24, 2020
    • Nov 21, 2020 New Laws of Robotics by Frank Pasquale Nov 21, 2020
    • Nov 17, 2020 Anna's Refuge by Kerryn Reid Nov 17, 2020
    • Nov 12, 2020 To Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu Nov 12, 2020
    • Nov 12, 2020 The Best Presidential Writing, edited by Craig Fehrman Nov 12, 2020
    • Nov 9, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “If you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side” Nov 9, 2020
    • Nov 6, 2020 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Nov 6, 2020
    • Nov 6, 2020 IRL by Chris Stedman Nov 6, 2020
    • Nov 4, 2020 Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger Nov 4, 2020
    • Nov 2, 2020 Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh Nov 2, 2020
  • October 2020
    • Oct 29, 2020 Magic by Chris Gosden Oct 29, 2020
    • Oct 27, 2020 The Masochist by Katja Perat Oct 27, 2020
    • Oct 27, 2020 Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers - Horace & Seneca Oct 27, 2020
    • Oct 23, 2020 Chandrabati's Ramayan Oct 23, 2020
    • Oct 21, 2020 Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters by Rosanna Warren Oct 21, 2020
    • Oct 20, 2020 Parade: A FolkTale by Hiromi Kawakami Oct 20, 2020
    • Oct 19, 2020 The Unfinished Tales of JRR Tolkien Oct 19, 2020
    • Oct 18, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “The true art of memory is the art of attention” Oct 18, 2020
    • Oct 18, 2020 Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation Oct 18, 2020
    • Oct 17, 2020 Screwball: Review of Darin Strauss’ “The Queen of Tuesday” Oct 17, 2020
    • Oct 16, 2020 Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria Oct 16, 2020
    • Oct 12, 2020 Philip and Alexander by Adrian Goldsworthy Oct 12, 2020
    • Oct 8, 2020 Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny Oct 8, 2020
    • Oct 6, 2020 The Last Brahmin by Luke A. Nichter Oct 6, 2020
    • Oct 3, 2020 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Oct 3, 2020
    • Oct 1, 2020 Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow Oct 1, 2020
  • September 2020
    • Sep 30, 2020 Rage by Bob Woodward Sep 30, 2020
    • Sep 24, 2020 It’s a Mystery:  “Funny thing about doubt—it marches into your brain and sets up camp without any invitation” Sep 24, 2020
    • Sep 23, 2020 King of the World by Philip Mansel Sep 23, 2020
    • Sep 17, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “Murder, I have often noticed, is a great matchmaker.” Sep 17, 2020
    • Sep 11, 2020 The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant Sep 11, 2020
    • Sep 10, 2020 The Nature of Fear by Daniel Blumstein Sep 10, 2020
    • Sep 8, 2020 This is Shakespeare by Emma Smith Sep 8, 2020
    • Sep 2, 2020 Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick Sep 2, 2020
    • Sep 1, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “God may not play dice, but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again” Sep 1, 2020
  • August 2020
    • Aug 31, 2020 Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores Aug 31, 2020
    • Aug 30, 2020 Heart Full of Rhythm by Ricky Riccardi Aug 30, 2020
    • Aug 27, 2020 Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley Aug 27, 2020
    • Aug 25, 2020 Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich Aug 25, 2020
    • Aug 19, 2020 Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan Eller Aug 19, 2020
    • Aug 16, 2020 Luster by Raven Leilani Aug 16, 2020
    • Aug 13, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “Life’s not a rehearsal” Aug 13, 2020
    • Aug 8, 2020 Austen Years by Rachel Cohen Aug 8, 2020
    • Aug 6, 2020 Twilight of the Gods by Ian Toll Aug 6, 2020
  • July 2020
    • Jul 29, 2020 Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous Jul 29, 2020
    • Jul 24, 2020 To Start A War by Robert Draper Jul 24, 2020
    • Jul 23, 2020 The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer Jul 23, 2020
    • Jul 22, 2020 Chicken by Paul Josephson Jul 22, 2020
    • Jul 18, 2020 Thin Places by Jordan Kisner Jul 18, 2020
    • Jul 13, 2020 Poland 1939 by Roger Moorhouse Jul 13, 2020
    • Jul 12, 2020 The Education of John Adams by R. B. Bernstein Jul 12, 2020
    • Jul 10, 2020 I You We Them by Dan Gretton Jul 10, 2020
    • Jul 8, 2020 Fraternity by Ben Nugent Jul 8, 2020
    • Jul 7, 2020 Cross of Snow by Nicholas Basbanes Jul 7, 2020
    • Jul 7, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another”  Jul 7, 2020
    • Jul 6, 2020 The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty Jul 6, 2020
    • Jul 1, 2020 Young Avengers by Gillen & McKelvie Jul 1, 2020
  • June 2020
    • Jun 30, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes” Jun 30, 2020
    • Jun 29, 2020 Lost Companions by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Jun 29, 2020
    • Jun 29, 2020 No More Giants Jun 29, 2020
    • Jun 26, 2020 The Deviant's War by Eric Cervini Jun 26, 2020
    • Jun 22, 2020 The Black Cabinet by Jill Watts Jun 22, 2020
    • Jun 21, 2020 Alaric the Goth by Douglas Boin Jun 21, 2020
    • Jun 18, 2020 The Loeb Classical Livy, Books 23-25 Jun 18, 2020
    • Jun 13, 2020 The New Despotism by John Keane Jun 13, 2020
    • Jun 12, 2020 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Jun 12, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson Jun 2, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz Jun 2, 2020
    • Jun 2, 2020 It’s a Mystery: There is a fine line between a monster and a hero Jun 2, 2020
  • May 2020
    • May 30, 2020 Tornado God by Peter Thuesen May 30, 2020
    • May 26, 2020 The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman May 26, 2020
    • May 26, 2020 Unholy by Sarah Posner May 26, 2020
    • May 23, 2020 Star Trek: The Higher Frontier by Christopher Bennett May 23, 2020
    • May 21, 2020 The Poets & Writers Complete Guide To Being a Writer May 21, 2020
    • May 18, 2020 The Suburb and the Sword: James Clavell’s Shogun as a Guide to Manhood May 18, 2020
    • May 17, 2020 Beast by Watt Key May 17, 2020
    • May 16, 2020 Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir May 16, 2020
    • May 15, 2020 The End of October by Lawrence Wright May 15, 2020
    • May 11, 2020 Scandinavian Noir by Wendy Lesser May 11, 2020
    • May 11, 2020 The Living Presidency by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash May 11, 2020
    • May 9, 2020 Men of Violence Take It By Force: Philippe Lancon’s “Disturbance” May 9, 2020
    • May 7, 2020 The Reckoning by MJ Trow May 7, 2020
    • May 5, 2020 Tombstone by Tom Clavin May 5, 2020
    • May 2, 2020 Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate May 2, 2020
  • April 2020
    • Apr 30, 2020 What It's Like To Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley Apr 30, 2020
    • Apr 30, 2020 Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty Apr 30, 2020
    • Apr 29, 2020 What Is the Grass by Mark Doty Apr 29, 2020
    • Apr 26, 2020 The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen Apr 26, 2020
    • Apr 26, 2020 Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand Apr 26, 2020
    • Apr 25, 2020 Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America (second edition) Apr 25, 2020
    • Apr 21, 2020 Calder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl Apr 21, 2020
    • Apr 21, 2020 From 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl Apr 21, 2020
    • Apr 18, 2020 The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow Apr 18, 2020
    • Apr 16, 2020 Broken by Don Winslow Apr 16, 2020
    • Apr 13, 2020 These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann Apr 13, 2020
    • Apr 8, 2020 They Knew They Were Pilgrims by John G. Turner Apr 8, 2020
    • Apr 6, 2020 Square Haunting by Francesca Wade Apr 6, 2020
    • Apr 5, 2020 Muhammad and the Empires of Faith by Sean Anthony Apr 5, 2020
    • Apr 4, 2020 Miss Austen by Gill Hornby Apr 4, 2020
    • Apr 3, 2020 Front Row at the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl Apr 3, 2020
  • March 2020
    • Mar 31, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “The person who talks less is the one with the upper hand.” Mar 31, 2020
    • Mar 28, 2020 Tower of Skulls by Richard Frank Mar 28, 2020
    • Mar 26, 2020 The Divided States of America by Donald Kettl Mar 26, 2020
    • Mar 25, 2020 A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn Mar 25, 2020
    • Mar 20, 2020 Deaths of Despair by Anne Case & Angus Deaton Mar 20, 2020
    • Mar 18, 2020 Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild Mar 18, 2020
    • Mar 12, 2020 Reef Life by Callum Roberts Mar 12, 2020
    • Mar 10, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend. You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” Mar 10, 2020
    • Mar 9, 2020 Billionaire Wilderness by Justin Farrell Mar 9, 2020
    • Mar 8, 2020 The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman Mar 8, 2020
    • Mar 7, 2020 The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk Mar 7, 2020
    • Mar 6, 2020 Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas Mar 6, 2020
    • Mar 4, 2020 Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez Mar 4, 2020
    • Mar 1, 2020 Movie Review: The Invisible Man Mar 1, 2020
    • Mar 1, 2020 Trace Elements by Donna Leon Mar 1, 2020
  • February 2020
    • Feb 29, 2020 The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat Feb 29, 2020
    • Feb 28, 2020 Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson Feb 28, 2020
    • Feb 26, 2020 Revolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin Feb 26, 2020
    • Feb 25, 2020 In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller Feb 25, 2020
    • Feb 24, 2020 The Napoleonic Wars by Alexander Mikaberidze Feb 24, 2020
    • Feb 20, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “Never met a sacred cow he didn’t want to slay” Feb 20, 2020
    • Feb 19, 2020 An Internet for the People by Jessa Lingel Feb 19, 2020
    • Feb 17, 2020 Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein Feb 17, 2020
    • Feb 13, 2020 The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper Feb 13, 2020
    • Feb 12, 2020 Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore Feb 12, 2020
    • Feb 10, 2020 A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind Feb 10, 2020
    • Feb 8, 2020 High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America Feb 8, 2020
    • Feb 7, 2020 A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig Feb 7, 2020
    • Feb 6, 2020 The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer Feb 6, 2020
    • Feb 3, 2020 The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson Feb 3, 2020
    • Feb 3, 2020 It’s a Mystery:  “Loyalty is a distorting mirror” Feb 3, 2020
    • Feb 2, 2020 The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson Feb 2, 2020
    • Feb 1, 2020 Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein Feb 1, 2020
  • January 2020
    • Jan 30, 2020 The Free-Market Family by Maxine Eichner Jan 30, 2020
    • Jan 28, 2020 Cat Tale by Craig Pittman Jan 28, 2020
    • Jan 26, 2020 Fully Grown by Dietrich Vollrath Jan 26, 2020
    • Jan 23, 2020 The American People Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact by Larry Kramer Jan 23, 2020
    • Jan 22, 2020 Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson Jan 22, 2020
    • Jan 21, 2020 It’s a Mystery: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” Jan 21, 2020
    • Jan 20, 2020 The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley Jan 20, 2020
    • Jan 17, 2020 Democracy and Equality by Geoffrey R. Stone & David A. Strauss Jan 17, 2020
    • Jan 15, 2020 Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy Jan 15, 2020
    • Jan 13, 2020 Kill Reply All by Victoria Turk Jan 13, 2020
    • Jan 10, 2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart Jan 10, 2020
    • Jan 9, 2020 The Magical Language of Others by E. J. Koh Jan 9, 2020
    • Jan 8, 2020 Forever My Duke by Olivia Drake Jan 8, 2020
    • Jan 7, 2020 Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez Jan 7, 2020
    • Jan 6, 2020 The Essential Works of Thomas More Jan 6, 2020
  • December 2019
    • Dec 22, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Fiction! Dec 22, 2019
    • Dec 21, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Nonfiction! Dec 21, 2019
    • Dec 20, 2019 The Worst Books of 2019: Nonfiction! Dec 20, 2019
    • Dec 19, 2019 The Worst Books of 2019: Fiction! Dec 19, 2019
    • Dec 18, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Biography! Dec 18, 2019
    • Dec 17, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures” Dec 17, 2019
    • Dec 17, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: History! Dec 17, 2019
    • Dec 16, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Nature! Dec 16, 2019
    • Dec 15, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Science! Dec 15, 2019
    • Dec 14, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Historical Fiction! Dec 14, 2019
    • Dec 13, 2019 Why You Should Be a Socialist by Nathan Robinson Dec 13, 2019
    • Dec 13, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Mystery! Dec 13, 2019
    • Dec 12, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Science Fiction and Fantasy! Dec 12, 2019
    • Dec 11, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Romance! Dec 11, 2019
    • Dec 10, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Thrillers! Dec 10, 2019
    • Dec 9, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Debut Fiction! Dec 9, 2019
    • Dec 8, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Kids & YA! Dec 8, 2019
    • Dec 7, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Works in Translation! Dec 7, 2019
    • Dec 6, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Reprints! Dec 6, 2019
    • Dec 5, 2019 The Best Books of 2019: Reference! Dec 5, 2019
    • Dec 4, 2019 The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall Dec 4, 2019
    • Dec 4, 2019 The Wicked Redhead by Beatriz Williams Dec 4, 2019
    • Dec 3, 2019 Free, Melania by Kate Bennett Dec 3, 2019
    • Dec 2, 2019 Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends Dec 2, 2019
  • November 2019
    • Nov 27, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.” Nov 27, 2019
    • Nov 25, 2019 Know My Name by Chanel Miller Nov 25, 2019
    • Nov 25, 2019 The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger Nov 25, 2019
    • Nov 22, 2019 Audience of One by James Poniewozik Nov 22, 2019
    • Nov 21, 2019 Parade by Hiromi Kawakami Nov 21, 2019
    • Nov 20, 2019 The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand Nov 20, 2019
    • Nov 19, 2019 Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate by Mike Giglio Nov 19, 2019
    • Nov 18, 2019 With All Due Respect by Nikki Haley Nov 18, 2019
    • Nov 15, 2019 Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov Nov 15, 2019
    • Nov 14, 2019 King Charles by Robert Jobson Nov 14, 2019
    • Nov 13, 2019 The Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver Nov 13, 2019
    • Nov 12, 2019 The Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton Nov 12, 2019
    • Nov 7, 2019 Ingenious by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson Nov 7, 2019
    • Nov 5, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Honor among thieves, perhaps, honor among spies, never” Nov 5, 2019
    • Nov 4, 2019 An Equal Justice by Chad Zunker Nov 4, 2019
    • Nov 1, 2019 Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland Nov 1, 2019
  • October 2019
    • Oct 30, 2019 The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer Oct 30, 2019
    • Oct 29, 2019 The Will of the People by T.H. Bree Oct 29, 2019
    • Oct 28, 2019 Dreams of El Dorado by H. W. Brands Oct 28, 2019
    • Oct 25, 2019 The Big Book of Reel Murders, Edited by Otto Penzler Oct 25, 2019
    • Oct 24, 2019 Unbound by Heather Boushey  Oct 24, 2019
    • Oct 22, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “The surest way to work up a crusade for some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone” Oct 22, 2019
    • Oct 21, 2019 Dogs by Mark Alizart Oct 21, 2019
    • Oct 18, 2019 Narrative Economics by Robert Shiller Oct 18, 2019
    • Oct 16, 2019 Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanovic Oct 16, 2019
    • Oct 15, 2019 Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers Oct 15, 2019
    • Oct 14, 2019 Unravelling the Double Helix by Gareth Williams Oct 14, 2019
    • Oct 12, 2019 The Successor by Willemijn Van Dijk Oct 12, 2019
    • Oct 11, 2019 Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky Oct 11, 2019
    • Oct 10, 2019 For the Love of Music by John Mauceri Oct 10, 2019
    • Oct 9, 2019 Cursed by Thomas Wheeler Oct 9, 2019
    • Oct 8, 2019 The Photo Ark: Vanishing by Joel Sartore Oct 8, 2019
    • Oct 7, 2019 Equality by Charles Postel Oct 7, 2019
    • Oct 1, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Constant togetherness is fine—but only for Siamese twins” Oct 1, 2019
  • September 2019
    • Sep 27, 2019 Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty Sep 27, 2019
    • Sep 25, 2019 Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll Sep 25, 2019
    • Sep 24, 2019 The Economists’ Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum Sep 24, 2019
    • Sep 23, 2019 Berta Isla by Javier Marías Sep 23, 2019
    • Sep 20, 2019 Thomas Jefferson’s Education by Alan Taylor Sep 20, 2019
    • Sep 19, 2019 Notes for a Star Trek Bibliography: The Antares Maelstrom Sep 19, 2019
    • Sep 19, 2019 Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay By Julie Zickefoose Sep 19, 2019
    • Sep 18, 2019 Crossfire Hurricane by Josh Campbell Sep 18, 2019
    • Sep 17, 2019 A Dangerous Engagement by Ashley Weaver Sep 17, 2019
    • Sep 16, 2019 Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk Sep 16, 2019
    • Sep 13, 2019 Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon Sep 13, 2019
    • Sep 12, 2019 It’s a Mystery: It was when things were most obvious that they were often most true Sep 12, 2019
    • Sep 11, 2019 End Times by Bryan Walsh Sep 11, 2019
    • Sep 10, 2019 Wading Right In by Catherine Owen Koning & Sharon M. Ashworth Sep 10, 2019
    • Sep 9, 2019 The Borgias by Paul Strathern Sep 9, 2019
    • Sep 6, 2019 Birds in Winter by Roger F. Pasquier Sep 6, 2019
    • Sep 5, 2019 The Price We Pay by Marty Makary Sep 5, 2019
    • Sep 4, 2019 The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Sep 4, 2019
    • Sep 3, 2019 The Case Against Free Speech by P.E. Moskowitz Sep 3, 2019
    • Sep 2, 2019 Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe Sep 2, 2019
  • August 2019
    • Aug 29, 2019 Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King Aug 29, 2019
    • Aug 27, 2019 Marx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri Aug 27, 2019
    • Aug 23, 2019 Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino Aug 23, 2019
    • Aug 22, 2019 Jonathan Hickman's Return to Marvel's X-Men Aug 22, 2019
    • Aug 21, 2019 Natural Rivals by John Clayton Aug 21, 2019
    • Aug 20, 2019 The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell Aug 20, 2019
    • Aug 19, 2019 The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman Aug 19, 2019
    • Aug 16, 2019 Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman Aug 16, 2019
    • Aug 15, 2019 The Twentysomething Soul by Tim Clydesdale & Kathleen Garces-Foley Aug 15, 2019
    • Aug 14, 2019 Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad Aug 14, 2019
    • Aug 13, 2019 Inland by Téa Obreht Aug 13, 2019
    • Aug 12, 2019 Know-It-All Society by Michael Patrick Lynch Aug 12, 2019
    • Aug 9, 2019 Lincoln's Spies by Douglas Waller Aug 9, 2019
    • Aug 7, 2019 Dear Justice League by Michael Northrop Aug 7, 2019
    • Aug 6, 2019 It’s a Mystery: Don’t ever tell a soldier guns are fun Aug 6, 2019
    • Aug 5, 2019 I Know What I Saw by Linda S. Godfrey Aug 5, 2019
    • Aug 1, 2019 Bram Stoker's Dracula Aug 1, 2019
  • July 2019
    • Jul 30, 2019 Mosquito by Timothy Winegard Jul 30, 2019
    • Jul 26, 2019 Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate by Alexandra Minna Stern Jul 26, 2019
    • Jul 24, 2019 The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor Jul 24, 2019
    • Jul 23, 2019 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Jul 23, 2019
    • Jul 22, 2019 In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond by John Zada Jul 22, 2019
    • Jul 19, 2019 America’s Reluctant Prince by Steven M. Gillon Jul 19, 2019
    • Jul 18, 2019 The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk Jul 18, 2019
    • Jul 16, 2019 It’s a Mystery: There is no “I” in Team Jul 16, 2019
    • Jul 12, 2019 Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Jul 12, 2019
    • Jul 10, 2019 Deep River by Karl Marlantes Jul 10, 2019
    • Jul 10, 2019 The Big Book of Classic Fantasy Jul 10, 2019
    • Jul 8, 2019 Child's Play, directed by Lars Klevberg Jul 8, 2019
    • Jul 6, 2019 The Patient Assassin by Anita Brand Jul 6, 2019
    • Jul 5, 2019 Hate Land by Daryl Johnson Jul 5, 2019
    • Jul 3, 2019 Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave Jul 3, 2019
    • Jul 1, 2019 Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher Jul 1, 2019
  • June 2019
    • Jun 28, 2019 Old Town Road Single by Lil Nas X Jun 28, 2019
    • Jun 27, 2019 Eat Like a Fish by Bren Smith Jun 27, 2019
    • Jun 26, 2019 Intimate Ties by Robert Musil Jun 26, 2019
    • Jun 25, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “If you want your enemy to fail, give him something important to do” Jun 25, 2019
    • Jun 24, 2019 The Ten Loves of Nishino By Hiromi Kawakami Jun 24, 2019
    • Jun 23, 2019 The Conservative Sensibility by George Will Jun 23, 2019
    • Jun 21, 2019 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous By Ocean Vuong Jun 21, 2019
    • Jun 20, 2019 Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Jun 20, 2019
    • Jun 19, 2019 The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora Jun 19, 2019
    • Jun 18, 2019 Fall, or, Dodge in Hell By Neal Stephenson Jun 18, 2019
    • Jun 17, 2019 The Origin of Empire by David Potter Jun 17, 2019
    • Jun 14, 2019 Rough Magic by Laura Prior-Palmer Jun 14, 2019
    • Jun 13, 2019 This Storm by James Ellroy Jun 13, 2019
    • Jun 12, 2019 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Edited by Graeme Davis Jun 12, 2019
    • Jun 11, 2019 The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson Jun 11, 2019
    • Jun 10, 2019 Jerusalem by Merav Mack & Benjamin Balint Jun 10, 2019
    • Jun 7, 2019 The Fourth Reich by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Jun 7, 2019
    • Jun 6, 2019 Moneyland by Oliver Bullough Jun 6, 2019
    • Jun 4, 2019 Darkness By Design by Walter Mattli Jun 4, 2019
    • Jun 3, 2019 The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso Jun 3, 2019
  • May 2019
    • May 30, 2019 Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin May 30, 2019
    • May 28, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Those that know the most must mourn the deepest” May 28, 2019
    • May 24, 2019 Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley May 24, 2019
    • May 22, 2019 Cari Mora by Thomas Harris May 22, 2019
    • May 21, 2019 Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba by Andrew Feldman May 21, 2019
    • May 20, 2019 Alex Rider: Secret Weapon by Anthony Horowitz May 20, 2019
    • May 17, 2019 Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond May 17, 2019
    • May 14, 2019 Birthday by César Aira May 14, 2019
    • May 13, 2019 Author interview: Alison Weir May 13, 2019
    • May 10, 2019 The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson May 10, 2019
    • May 9, 2019 It’s a Mystery: We run away from what scares or hurts us--or from what holds us captive May 9, 2019
    • May 8, 2019 Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan by Keisuke Matsuoka May 8, 2019
    • May 7, 2019 Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School by James Brooke-Smith May 7, 2019
    • May 6, 2019 Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt May 6, 2019
    • May 3, 2019 Our Man by George Packer May 3, 2019
    • May 2, 2019 American Eagle: A Visual History of Our National Emblem by Preston Cook May 2, 2019
    • May 1, 2019 Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy May 1, 2019
  • April 2019
    • Apr 30, 2019 Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner Apr 30, 2019
    • Apr 26, 2019 The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Apr 26, 2019
    • Apr 25, 2019 The War for Gaul translated by James O'Donnell Apr 25, 2019
    • Apr 24, 2019 Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge Apr 24, 2019
    • Apr 23, 2019 The Hill to Die On by Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer Apr 23, 2019
    • Apr 22, 2019 Down from the Mountain by Bryce Andrews Apr 22, 2019
    • Apr 19, 2019 Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J. Evans Apr 19, 2019
    • Apr 17, 2019 Delta-v by Daniel Suarez Apr 17, 2019
    • Apr 15, 2019 The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum Apr 15, 2019
    • Apr 14, 2019 Revolutionary by Robert L. O'Connell Apr 14, 2019
    • Apr 12, 2019 White by Bret Easton Ellis Apr 12, 2019
    • Apr 11, 2019 Metropolis by Phillip Kerr Apr 11, 2019
    • Apr 8, 2019 Henrik Ibsen: The Man & the Mask By Ivo De Figueiredo Apr 8, 2019
    • Apr 5, 2019 The Damascus Road by Jay Parini Apr 5, 2019
    • Apr 3, 2019 Left To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright Apr 3, 2019
    • Apr 2, 2019 Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring Apr 2, 2019
    • Apr 1, 2019 Crown Jewel by Christopher Reich Apr 1, 2019
  • March 2019
    • Mar 29, 2019 Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly Mar 29, 2019
    • Mar 26, 2019 It’s a Mystery:  “Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time” Mar 26, 2019
    • Mar 25, 2019 The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour by Mark A. Norell Mar 25, 2019
    • Mar 22, 2019 The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution Mar 22, 2019
    • Mar 21, 2019 The Back Channel by William J. Burns Mar 21, 2019
    • Mar 20, 2019 The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro Mar 20, 2019
    • Mar 18, 2019 Winter War by Eric Rauchway Mar 18, 2019
    • Mar 17, 2019 Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown Mar 17, 2019
    • Mar 16, 2019 How To Know the Birds by Ted Floyd Mar 16, 2019
    • Mar 15, 2019 The Sakura Obsession by Naoko Abe Mar 15, 2019
    • Mar 14, 2019 How Attention Works by Stefan Van Der Stigchel Mar 14, 2019
    • Mar 13, 2019 Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt De La Peña Mar 13, 2019
    • Mar 12, 2019 The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak Mar 12, 2019
    • Mar 11, 2019 The Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari Mar 11, 2019
    • Mar 8, 2019 L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller Mar 8, 2019
    • Mar 7, 2019 The Border by Don Winslow Mar 7, 2019
    • Mar 6, 2019 Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg Mar 6, 2019
    • Mar 5, 2019 Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard Mar 5, 2019
    • Mar 4, 2019 Mission Critical by Mark Greaney Mar 4, 2019
    • Mar 1, 2019 Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay Mar 1, 2019
  • February 2019
    • Feb 28, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination” Feb 28, 2019
    • Feb 26, 2019 The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction Feb 26, 2019
    • Feb 23, 2019 Landfall by Thomas Mallon Feb 23, 2019
    • Feb 21, 2019 Iran Rising by Amin Saikal Feb 21, 2019
    • Feb 20, 2019 If We Can Keep It by Michael Tomasky Feb 20, 2019
    • Feb 19, 2019 American Pop by Snowden Wright Feb 19, 2019
    • Feb 18, 2019 Zucked by Roger McNamee Feb 18, 2019
    • Feb 15, 2019 American Cosmic by D. W. Pasulka Feb 15, 2019
    • Feb 14, 2019 Trump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten Feb 14, 2019
    • Feb 12, 2019 Stalker by Lars Kepler Feb 12, 2019
    • Feb 8, 2019 Team of Vipers by Cliff Sims Feb 8, 2019
    • Feb 6, 2019 Let Me Finish by Chris Christie Feb 6, 2019
    • Feb 6, 2019 It’s a Mystery: “Evil for evil’s sake is an invention of man” Feb 6, 2019
    • Feb 5, 2019 Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming by T.L. Taylor Feb 5, 2019
    • Feb 4, 2019 Catherine & Diderot by Robert Zaretsky Feb 4, 2019
    • Feb 1, 2019 A Supernatural War by Owen Davies Feb 1, 2019
  • January 2019
    • Jan 31, 2019 Four Novels of the 1930s by John O’Hara Jan 31, 2019
    • Jan 30, 2019 Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran Jan 30, 2019
    • Jan 26, 2019 The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden Jan 26, 2019
    • Jan 24, 2019 The Last Whalers by Doug Bock Clark Jan 24, 2019
    • Jan 23, 2019 Hark by Sam Lipsyte Jan 23, 2019
    • Jan 22, 2019 Eva Salomon's War by Gabriella Goliger Jan 22, 2019
    • Jan 19, 2019 Nebuchadnezzar's Dream by Jay Rubenstein Jan 19, 2019
    • Jan 17, 2019 Up with the Angels Jan 17, 2019
    • Jan 16, 2019 The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail Jan 16, 2019
    • Jan 15, 2019 It’s a Mystery:  “We all have public lives, and private lives, and secret lives” Jan 15, 2019
    • Jan 14, 2019 White Stag by Kara Barbieri Jan 14, 2019
    • Jan 12, 2019 The Misinformation Age by Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall Jan 12, 2019
    • Jan 11, 2019 Through Fiery Trials by David Weber Jan 11, 2019
    • Jan 10, 2019 Queen of the World by Robert Hardman Jan 10, 2019
    • Jan 9, 2019 The Persecution of the Knights Templar by Alain Demurger Jan 9, 2019
    • Jan 8, 2019 The Duke I Once Knew by Olivia Drake Jan 8, 2019
    • Jan 7, 2019 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin Jan 7, 2019
    • Jan 4, 2019 The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King by Jerome Charyn Jan 4, 2019
  • December 2018
    • Dec 27, 2018 Civil War Barons by Jeffrey D. Wert Dec 27, 2018
    • Dec 26, 2018 The Gown by Jennifer Robson Dec 26, 2018
    • Dec 20, 2018 Previously on OLM: James Wood and the Fall of Man Dec 20, 2018
    • Dec 19, 2018 Previously on OLM: Advice to a Young Reviewer Dec 19, 2018
    • Dec 14, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Nonfiction! Dec 14, 2018
    • Dec 13, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Fiction! Dec 13, 2018
    • Dec 12, 2018 The Worst Books of 2018: Nonfiction! Dec 12, 2018
    • Dec 11, 2018 The Worst Books of 2018: Fiction! Dec 11, 2018
    • Dec 11, 2018 Best Books of 2018: History! Dec 11, 2018
    • Dec 10, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Biography! Dec 10, 2018
    • Dec 9, 2018 Best Books of 2018: Science and Nature! Dec 9, 2018
    • Dec 8, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Romance! Dec 8, 2018
    • Dec 7, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Mystery! Dec 7, 2018
    • Dec 6, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy! Dec 6, 2018
    • Dec 5, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Historical Fiction! Dec 5, 2018
    • Dec 4, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Debut Fiction! Dec 4, 2018
    • Dec 3, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Works in Translation! Dec 3, 2018
    • Dec 2, 2018 The Best Books of 2018: Kids and Young Adult Dec 2, 2018
    • Dec 1, 2018 Best Books of 2018: Reprints! Dec 1, 2018
  • November 2018
    • Nov 30, 2018 In Search of the Canary Tree by Lauren E. Oakes Nov 30, 2018
    • Nov 29, 2018 Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Nov 29, 2018
    • Nov 28, 2018 In Memoriam: Stan Lee Nov 28, 2018
    • Nov 27, 2018 The Girl in the Spider’s Web Nov 27, 2018
    • Nov 26, 2018 The Calculus of Violence by Aaron Sheehan-Dean Nov 26, 2018
    • Nov 23, 2018 The End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Nov 23, 2018
    • Nov 21, 2018 Impeachment: An American History Nov 21, 2018
    • Nov 20, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” Nov 20, 2018
    • Nov 19, 2018 Literary Landscapes, edited by John Sutherland Nov 19, 2018
    • Nov 14, 2018 Sentinel by Francesca Lidia Viano Nov 14, 2018
    • Nov 13, 2018 8 Bit Apocalypse by Alex Rubens Nov 13, 2018
    • Nov 12, 2018 Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn Nov 12, 2018
    • Nov 11, 2018 Churchill: The Statesman as Artist Nov 11, 2018
    • Nov 11, 2018 Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump by David Shields Nov 11, 2018
    • Nov 9, 2018 Penguins on Parade: The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration! Nov 9, 2018
    • Nov 7, 2018 Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II by James Holland Nov 7, 2018
    • Nov 6, 2018 Finding a New Midwestern History Nov 6, 2018
    • Nov 5, 2018 Don’t Quit Your Day Job by Michael Fedo Nov 5, 2018
    • Nov 4, 2018 Ronald Reagan: An Intellectual Biography By David T. Byrne Nov 4, 2018
    • Nov 2, 2018 Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life By Diarmaid MacCulloch Nov 2, 2018
  • October 2018
    • Oct 31, 2018 The Library Book by Susan Orlean Oct 31, 2018
    • Oct 30, 2018 True Indie by Don Coscarelli Oct 30, 2018
    • Oct 29, 2018 Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Oct 29, 2018
    • Oct 27, 2018 Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History Oct 27, 2018
    • Oct 26, 2018 The Big Book of Female Detectives Oct 26, 2018
    • Oct 24, 2018 Napoleon: A Life by Adam Zamoyski Oct 24, 2018
    • Oct 23, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “Life is never good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil” Oct 23, 2018
    • Oct 22, 2018 Hitler's American Friends by Bradley W. Hart Oct 22, 2018
    • Oct 18, 2018 1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James Horn Oct 18, 2018
    • Oct 17, 2018 Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman Oct 17, 2018
    • Oct 16, 2018 My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother Oct 16, 2018
    • Oct 15, 2018 Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight Oct 15, 2018
    • Oct 14, 2018 The Witch Elm by Tana French Oct 14, 2018
    • Oct 13, 2018 Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha Oct 13, 2018
    • Oct 12, 2018 Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz Oct 12, 2018
    • Oct 11, 2018 Escaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West Oct 11, 2018
    • Oct 10, 2018 LikeWar by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking Oct 10, 2018
    • Oct 8, 2018 Future Politics by Jamie Susskind Oct 8, 2018
    • Oct 7, 2018 Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior by Theophrastus Oct 7, 2018
    • Oct 5, 2018 The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings by Leonard Cohen Oct 5, 2018
    • Oct 2, 2018 Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames Oct 2, 2018
    • Oct 1, 2018 Sons of Freedom by Geoffrey Wawro Oct 1, 2018
  • September 2018
    • Sep 30, 2018 Penguins on Parade: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories! Sep 30, 2018
    • Sep 28, 2018 One of the Boys: Reflections on a Milestone Play, 50 Years On Sep 28, 2018
    • Sep 26, 2018 Foe by Iain Reid Sep 26, 2018
    • Sep 25, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed” Sep 25, 2018
    • Sep 24, 2018 Schumann: The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik Sep 24, 2018
    • Sep 23, 2018 The Improbable Wendell Willkie by David Levering Lewis Sep 23, 2018
    • Sep 21, 2018 Even Darkness Sings by Thomas H. Cook Sep 21, 2018
    • Sep 19, 2018 Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward Sep 19, 2018
    • Sep 17, 2018 Sleepyhead by Henry Nicholls Sep 17, 2018
    • Sep 15, 2018 An Act of Villainy by Ashley Weaver Sep 15, 2018
    • Sep 14, 2018 Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier Sep 14, 2018
    • Sep 12, 2018 The Man in the Arena by Rodger McDaniel Sep 12, 2018
    • Sep 12, 2018 Twitterbots by Tony Veale & Mike Cook Sep 12, 2018
    • Sep 11, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “When one is unique, one knows it!” Sep 11, 2018
    • Sep 10, 2018 The Death of Hitler by Jean-Christophe Brisard & Lana Parshina Sep 10, 2018
    • Sep 9, 2018 The Lost Queen by Signe Pike Sep 9, 2018
    • Sep 6, 2018 The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Sep 6, 2018
    • Sep 4, 2018 Pay No Heed to the Rockets by Marcello Di Cintio Sep 4, 2018
    • Sep 3, 2018 The Fall of Gondolin by J. R. R. Tolkien Sep 3, 2018
    • Sep 2, 2018 Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold Sep 2, 2018
    • Sep 1, 2018 The King’s Assassin by Benjamin Woolley Sep 1, 2018
  • August 2018
    • Aug 29, 2018 Putney by Sofka Zinovieff Aug 29, 2018
    • Aug 27, 2018 Cherry by Nico Walker Aug 27, 2018
    • Aug 27, 2018 A Life of My Own By Claire Tomalin Aug 27, 2018
    • Aug 24, 2018 Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu Aug 24, 2018
    • Aug 23, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “You couldn’t betray someone efficiently if you didn’t love them first” Aug 23, 2018
    • Aug 22, 2018 The Line That Held Us by David Joy Aug 22, 2018
    • Aug 21, 2018 The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker Aug 21, 2018
    • Aug 20, 2018 The Spy of Venice by Benet Brandreth Aug 20, 2018
    • Aug 17, 2018 A Dog Named Doug by Karma Wilson & Matt Myers Aug 17, 2018
    • Aug 16, 2018 The Husband Hunters by Anne De Courcy Aug 16, 2018
    • Aug 15, 2018 Extreme Conservation by Joel Berger Aug 15, 2018
    • Aug 14, 2018 Crashed by Adam Tooze Aug 14, 2018
    • Aug 13, 2018 Ben Goldfarb Q&A about BEAVERS! Aug 13, 2018
    • Aug 12, 2018 The Viking Wars by Max Adams Aug 12, 2018
    • Aug 10, 2018 The Ascent of John Tyndall by Roland Jackson Aug 10, 2018
    • Aug 8, 2018 Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift Aug 8, 2018
    • Aug 6, 2018 The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Aug 6, 2018
    • Aug 3, 2018 Rome Resurgent by Peter Heather Aug 3, 2018
    • Aug 1, 2018 Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic Aug 1, 2018
  • July 2018
    • Jul 31, 2018 It’s a Mystery:  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer Jul 31, 2018
    • Jul 30, 2018 The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell Jul 30, 2018
    • Jul 27, 2018 The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton Jul 27, 2018
    • Jul 26, 2018 The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon Jul 26, 2018
    • Jul 25, 2018 The Wonderful Mr. Willughby by Tim Birkhead Jul 25, 2018
    • Jul 21, 2018 Penguins on Parade: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta! Jul 21, 2018
    • Jul 19, 2018 House Crossing: Poems By Laurie L. Patton Jul 19, 2018
    • Jul 17, 2018 The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross Jul 17, 2018
    • Jul 16, 2018 Back to the New Yorker in the Penny Press! Jul 16, 2018
    • Jul 15, 2018 World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig Symonds Jul 15, 2018
    • Jul 14, 2018 First in Line by Kate Andersen Brower Jul 14, 2018
    • Jul 10, 2018 Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History by Brian Stanley Jul 10, 2018
    • Jul 8, 2018 The Oxford Companion to the Brontës by Christine Alexander & Margaret Smith Jul 8, 2018
    • Jul 7, 2018 Laughing Shall I Die by Tom Shippey Jul 7, 2018
    • Jul 6, 2018 Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts Jul 6, 2018
    • Jul 5, 2018 The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young Jul 5, 2018
    • Jul 4, 2018 Brief Cases by Jim Butcher Jul 4, 2018
    • Jul 3, 2018 OK, Mr. Field by Katharine Kilalea Jul 3, 2018
    • Jul 2, 2018 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively Jul 2, 2018
    • Jul 1, 2018 The Outsider by Stephen King Jul 1, 2018
  • June 2018
    • Jun 30, 2018 Gremlins (Novelization) by George Gipe Jun 30, 2018
    • Jun 26, 2018 A New Sequel to Homer! Jun 26, 2018
    • Jun 25, 2018 Tropic of Squalor: Poems By Mary Karr Jun 25, 2018
    • Jun 23, 2018 A Blood Thing by James Hankins Jun 23, 2018
    • Jun 20, 2018 Book Reviewers and Card Sharps in the Penny Press! Jun 20, 2018
    • Jun 19, 2018 Unbeaten by Mike Stanton Jun 19, 2018
    • Jun 18, 2018 Why We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma Jun 18, 2018
    • Jun 17, 2018 Brown: Poems By Kevin Young Jun 17, 2018
    • Jun 16, 2018 Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts Jun 16, 2018
    • Jun 13, 2018 Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly Jun 13, 2018
    • Jun 12, 2018 The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler Jun 12, 2018
    • Jun 11, 2018 The Iliad of Homer translated by Joe Sachs Jun 11, 2018
    • Jun 9, 2018 How Democracy Ends by David Runciman Jun 9, 2018
    • Jun 8, 2018 Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy Jun 8, 2018
    • Jun 7, 2018 Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier Jun 7, 2018
    • Jun 6, 2018 Come West and See by Maxim Loskutoff Jun 6, 2018
    • Jun 5, 2018 It’s a Mystery: Cynicism is a very respectable school of philosophy Jun 5, 2018
    • Jun 4, 2018 The Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius Jun 4, 2018
    • Jun 2, 2018 When the Center Held by Donald Rumsfeld Jun 2, 2018
    • Jun 1, 2018 Truth or Dare Jun 1, 2018
  • May 2018
    • May 31, 2018 Problems by Jade Sharma May 31, 2018
    • May 30, 2018 Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge May 30, 2018
    • May 29, 2018 Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir May 29, 2018
    • May 26, 2018 I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing by A. D. Jameson May 26, 2018
    • May 24, 2018 Universe in Creation by Roy R. Gould May 24, 2018
    • May 23, 2018 Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom by Christopher S. Wren May 23, 2018
    • May 22, 2018 The Known Citizen by Sarah E. Igo May 22, 2018
    • May 21, 2018 Young Washington by Peter Stark May 21, 2018
    • May 20, 2018 Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Piketty May 20, 2018
    • May 19, 2018 That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam May 19, 2018
    • May 18, 2018 Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk May 18, 2018
    • May 17, 2018 Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena May 17, 2018
    • May 16, 2018 Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade May 16, 2018
    • May 15, 2018 Artificial Condition by Martha Wells May 15, 2018
    • May 14, 2018 The Black Prince by Michael Jones May 14, 2018
    • May 13, 2018 So Lucky by Nicola Griffith May 13, 2018
    • May 12, 2018 Asperger's Children by Edith Sheffer May 12, 2018
    • May 11, 2018 A Handful of Ashes by Rob McCarthy May 11, 2018
    • May 10, 2018 It’s a Mystery:  “Being a lawyer doesn’t feel as honest as being a good con man” May 10, 2018
    • May 9, 2018 Harry: A Biography of a Prince by Angela Levin May 9, 2018
    • May 8, 2018 Author Interview: Daniel Lewis May 8, 2018
    • May 7, 2018 Overkill by Ted Bell May 7, 2018
    • May 6, 2018 The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews May 6, 2018
    • May 5, 2018 The Moralist by Patricia O'Toole May 5, 2018
    • May 2, 2018 President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat May 2, 2018
    • May 1, 2018 It's a Mystery: The 72nd Annual Edgar Awards May 1, 2018
  • April 2018
    • Apr 30, 2018 Eisenhower vs Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties by James Simon Apr 30, 2018
    • Apr 29, 2018 Belonging on an Island by Daniel Lewis Apr 29, 2018
    • Apr 26, 2018 Living with Leonardo by Martin Kemp Apr 26, 2018
    • Apr 24, 2018 Christian: The Politics of a Word in America by Matthew Bowman Apr 24, 2018
    • Apr 23, 2018 Into the Storm by Tristram Korten Apr 23, 2018
    • Apr 22, 2018 Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert Apr 22, 2018
    • Apr 21, 2018 Action Comics 80 Years of Superman: The Deluxe Edition Apr 21, 2018
    • Apr 18, 2018 Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young Apr 18, 2018
    • Apr 17, 2018 Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard Apr 17, 2018
    • Apr 15, 2018 A Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski Apr 15, 2018
    • Apr 14, 2018 The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett Apr 14, 2018
    • Apr 13, 2018 The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Apr 13, 2018
    • Apr 10, 2018 Becoming Madeleine by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy Apr 10, 2018
    • Apr 7, 2018 The Overstory  by Richard Powers Apr 7, 2018
    • Apr 6, 2018 Why Baseball Matters by Susan Jacoby Apr 6, 2018
    • Apr 5, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “The moral high ground is nothing but quicksand” Apr 5, 2018
    • Apr 4, 2018 The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi by Johann Chapoutot Apr 4, 2018
    • Apr 3, 2018 Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 by Michael Broers Apr 3, 2018
    • Apr 2, 2018 Belief by James E. Alcock Apr 2, 2018
  • March 2018
    • Mar 31, 2018 Rip Crew by Sebastian Rotella Mar 31, 2018
    • Mar 29, 2018 Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders Mar 29, 2018
    • Mar 28, 2018 Waiting for Tomorrow by Nathacha Appanah Mar 28, 2018
    • Mar 26, 2018 Absolute Power by Paul Collins Mar 26, 2018
    • Mar 25, 2018 Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell Mar 25, 2018
    • Mar 23, 2018 What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics  by Adam Becker Mar 23, 2018
    • Mar 22, 2018 The anniversary of a German cult classic Mar 22, 2018
    • Mar 21, 2018 St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva by Jonathan Miles Mar 21, 2018
    • Mar 19, 2018 The Château by Paul Goldberg Mar 19, 2018
    • Mar 18, 2018 The Hoarder by Jess Kidd Mar 18, 2018
    • Mar 17, 2018 Glimpse by Jonathan Maberry Mar 17, 2018
    • Mar 15, 2018 Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin Mar 15, 2018
    • Mar 13, 2018 Death Wish, directed by Eli Roth Mar 13, 2018
    • Mar 12, 2018 John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr Mar 12, 2018
    • Mar 11, 2018 William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen Mar 11, 2018
    • Mar 8, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “It is what we fear that happens to us” Mar 8, 2018
    • Mar 7, 2018 Elizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis Mar 7, 2018
    • Mar 4, 2018 Death of an Unsung Hero by Tessa Arlen Mar 4, 2018
    • Mar 3, 2018 Memento Mori  by Ruth Downie Mar 3, 2018
    • Mar 1, 2018 Farewell to the Horse: A Cultural History by Ulrich Raulff Mar 1, 2018
  • February 2018
    • Feb 28, 2018 Unsung Hero: Reviving the Forgotten Career of a Theatrical Genius Feb 28, 2018
    • Feb 27, 2018 The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg Feb 27, 2018
    • Feb 26, 2018 The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld Feb 26, 2018
    • Feb 25, 2018 Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories By Kelly Barnhill Feb 25, 2018
    • Feb 24, 2018 Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion by Jörg Rüpke Feb 24, 2018
    • Feb 23, 2018 Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Feb 23, 2018
    • Feb 22, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “Learn to control silence and you can control almost anyone” Feb 22, 2018
    • Feb 20, 2018 The Invention of Ana by Mikkel Rosengaard Feb 20, 2018
    • Feb 19, 2018 The Throne of Caesar by Steven Saylor Feb 19, 2018
    • Feb 17, 2018 Where Night Stops by Douglas Light Feb 17, 2018
    • Feb 16, 2018 Some Hell by Patrick Nathan Feb 16, 2018
    • Feb 14, 2018 Regency Romance Bingo Feb 14, 2018
    • Feb 13, 2018 Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates Feb 13, 2018
    • Feb 12, 2018 The King's City by Don Jordan Feb 12, 2018
    • Feb 11, 2018 Madness is Better Than Defeat by Ned Beauman Feb 11, 2018
    • Feb 9, 2018 Semiosis by Sue Burke Feb 9, 2018
    • Feb 8, 2018 Winter by Ali Smith Feb 8, 2018
    • Feb 7, 2018 Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens by Robin Waterfield Feb 7, 2018
    • Feb 6, 2018 Crucible: The President's First Year Feb 6, 2018
    • Feb 5, 2018 Good Neighbors by Joanne Serling Feb 5, 2018
    • Feb 3, 2018 Help I Am Being Held Prisoner by Donald E. Westlake Feb 3, 2018
    • Feb 2, 2018 Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani Feb 2, 2018
    • Feb 1, 2018 Tom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox by Bill Nowlin Feb 1, 2018
  • January 2018
    • Jan 31, 2018 Lullaby by Leïla Slimani Jan 31, 2018
    • Jan 30, 2018 The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Clive James  Jan 30, 2018
    • Jan 30, 2018 Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman Jan 30, 2018
    • Jan 29, 2018 Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World by Louis Galambos Jan 29, 2018
    • Jan 28, 2018 The Take by Christopher Reich Jan 28, 2018
    • Jan 27, 2018 It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston Jan 27, 2018
    • Jan 26, 2018 Phone by Will Self Jan 26, 2018
    • Jan 25, 2018 The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann Jan 25, 2018
    • Jan 24, 2018 The Book: An Homage by Burkhard Spinnen Jan 24, 2018
    • Jan 23, 2018 Hasidism: A New History Jan 23, 2018
    • Jan 22, 2018 Gnomon by Nick Harkaway Jan 22, 2018
    • Jan 21, 2018 The Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur Jan 21, 2018
    • Jan 20, 2018 The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith Jan 20, 2018
    • Jan 19, 2018 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Jan 19, 2018
    • Jan 18, 2018 Blood Fury by J. R. Ward Jan 18, 2018
    • Jan 17, 2018 The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor Jan 17, 2018
    • Jan 16, 2018 Confessions by Saint Augustine Jan 16, 2018
    • Jan 15, 2018 Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum Jan 15, 2018
    • Jan 14, 2018 Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction by Erica Garza Jan 14, 2018
    • Jan 13, 2018 The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992 by Tina Brown Jan 13, 2018
    • Jan 12, 2018 Criticism in Cyberspace Jan 12, 2018
    • Jan 11, 2018 It’s a Mystery: “Most things are both true and absurd” Jan 11, 2018
    • Jan 10, 2018 The Spaces Between Us by Michael S. A. Graziano Jan 10, 2018
    • Jan 9, 2018 Robicheaux by James Lee Burke Jan 9, 2018
    • Jan 8, 2018 Peculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Jan 8, 2018
    • Jan 7, 2018 Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci Jan 7, 2018
    • Jan 6, 2018 The Divine Mind by Michael Gellert Jan 6, 2018
    • Jan 5, 2018 Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Jan 5, 2018
    • Jan 5, 2018 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Jan 5, 2018
    • Jan 4, 2018 The Wife by Alafair Burke Jan 4, 2018
    • Jan 4, 2018 My Pillow Keeps Moving! By Laura Gehl Jan 4, 2018
    • Jan 4, 2018 Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon Jan 4, 2018
    • Jan 3, 2018 The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works Jan 3, 2018
    • Jan 3, 2018 In the Shadow of Agatha Christie Jan 3, 2018
    • Jan 2, 2018 Higher Calling: Cycling's Obsession with Mountains by Max Leonard Jan 2, 2018
    • Jan 1, 2018 Oliver Loving by Stefan Merrill Block Jan 1, 2018
  • December 2017
    • Dec 27, 2017 The Tools We Need Dec 27, 2017
    • Dec 26, 2017 The Great Apes: A Short History by Chris Herzfeld Dec 26, 2017
    • Dec 4, 2017 Book Review: Christopher Hitchens - The Last Interview Dec 4, 2017
    • Dec 3, 2017 The Twilight(ing) of the Superhero Dec 3, 2017
    • Dec 1, 2017 The Cute One Redux Dec 1, 2017
  • November 2017
    • Nov 1, 2017 A Bygone Present Nov 1, 2017
  • March 2017
    • Mar 1, 2017 Marilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy Mar 1, 2017
  • October 2016
    • Oct 1, 2016 Worlds Undone Oct 1, 2016
  • March 2016
    • Mar 1, 2016 Both Sides, Now Mar 1, 2016
  • October 2015
    • Oct 1, 2015 Not One to Eschew the Everyday Oct 1, 2015
  • July 2015
    • Jul 1, 2015 All Our Revels Ended Jul 1, 2015
  • May 2015
    • May 1, 2015 Reading Poetry May 1, 2015
  • April 2015
    • Apr 1, 2015 Fabergé Monsters Apr 1, 2015
  • December 2014
    • Dec 1, 2014 James Wood and The Fall of Man Dec 1, 2014
  • September 2012
    • Sep 24, 2012 Gordon's Alive! Sep 24, 2012
  • June 2012
    • Jun 6, 2012 Endless Forms Most Brutal Jun 6, 2012
  • May 2012
    • May 1, 2012 No Strange Quirk of Fate May 1, 2012
  • April 2012
    • Apr 2, 2012 Into the Breach: "Battle Royale" and "The Hunger Games" Apr 2, 2012
  • November 2010
    • Nov 3, 2010 A Book Every King Should Read Nov 3, 2010
  • October 2009
    • Oct 10, 2009 Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War ​​​​​​​by Adam Nicolson Oct 10, 2009
  • August 2009
    • Aug 12, 2009 A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin & Faith by John Rawls Aug 12, 2009
  • June 2009
    • Jun 10, 2009 Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien Jun 10, 2009
  • September 2008
    • Sep 15, 2008 Before I Lose My Style by Mike Kaspar Sep 15, 2008
    • Sep 12, 2008 An Innocent Client  by Scott Pratt Sep 12, 2008
  • July 2008
    • Jul 22, 2008 Black and White and Dead All Over by John Darnton Jul 22, 2008
  • June 2008
    • Jun 18, 2008 A Buffalo in the House, The Extraordinary story of Charlie and His Family by R. D. Rosen Jun 18, 2008
  • April 2007
    • Apr 1, 2007 Absent Friends: It wasn't what he wanted Apr 1, 2007
    • Apr 1, 2007 A Tiny and Swattable Mind Apr 1, 2007
  • March 2007
    • Mar 15, 2007 Childe Harold's Children Mar 15, 2007
    • Mar 1, 2007 The Poison Tree Mar 1, 2007
    • Mar 1, 2007 Absent Friends: Nicholas Monsarrat Mar 1, 2007
    • Mar 1, 2007 Shall we in that great night rejoice? Mar 1, 2007

 

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