A new study of Plato’s relationship with the ruler he attempted to instruct.

The director of the Pompeii Archeological Park writes about unearthing the famous buried city

The story behind one of the great biographies of the 20th century

An enthusiastic new book about the joys of algebra

A new series of meditations on rivers from the author of “Underland”

An authoritative biography of the author of The Decameron

The celebrated biographer publishes an enormous book about Mark Twain

An invigorating new biography of the great Roman poet Horace