Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson
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An exploration of Jane Austen’s clothing, grounded on references from her surviving letters.
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Sunday Best By John Carey
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Veteran book critic collects work spanning thousands of reviews.
Read MoreThe Last Brahmin by Luke A. Nichter
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An examination of the wide-ranging and varied political influence wielded by Henry Cabot Lodge.
Read MoreThey Knew They Were Pilgrims by John G. Turner
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A new account of the trials, triumphs, and crimes of the Plymouth Plantation founders.
Read MoreThe Essential Works of Thomas More
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All the major (and plenty of the minor) writings of St. Thomas More, in one gorgeously-designed hefty volume.
Read MoreMarx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
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Meet Marx the philosopher, economist, journalist, historian, revolutionary, and even Marx the parent.
Read MoreJerusalem by Merav Mack & Benjamin Balint
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Jerusalem is well portrayed by the authors as they explore the books, the libraries, and the stories of the ancient city.
Read MoreMatilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
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Hanley’s assessment of the various roles Matilda filled in her life is uniformly thought-provoking.
Read MoreHenrik Ibsen: The Man & the Mask By Ivo De Figueiredo
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Written with a surprisingly light tempo and an unerring instinct for, oddly enough, zingers.
Read MoreNicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring
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A comprehensive and almost certainly definitive life of Hilliard and a richly involving portrait of his time.
Read MoreThe Misinformation Age by Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall
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For a book of 200 pages, The Misinformation Age covers a great deal of territory.
Read MoreWhy Baseball Matters by Susan Jacoby
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The real title of Why Baseball Matters might well be How Baseball Survives.
Read MoreThe Great Apes: A Short History by Chris Herzfeld
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Christ Herzfeld's Petite histoire des grands singes appeared originally in 2012 and now has an English-language translation from Yale University Press by Kevin Frey that ably captures both Herzfeld's sweeping viewpoint and his sharply inquisitive tone; the book presents readers with a fast-paced and engaged history of humanity's historical and scientific encounters with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and chimpanzees and broadens whenever it can to larger issues of ethology and primatology.
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