How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lane
/The best of Anthony Lane's many New Yorker reviews and essays were collected in Nobody's Perfect, a big volume that amply displays this writer's wit and subtlety.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “He’s the gray cardinal of the Kremlin”
/The Silent Oligarch is a smashing debut thriller that has Chris Morgan Jones assuming the le Carré mantle in his own very original way
Read MoreLast Month's Issue
/The forgotten Brontë, a new Iago, coterminous terrorists, Prince Albert in 5 volumes, how to listen to music online, DeLillo, Bostonia, brand new editor, Tagore Redux and plenty more ...
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Brahmin Dreams: In Search of the Capital of The World
/Boston without Brahmins, like Vienna without Jews, frames shifting capitoline visions, visions much more in the spirit than most realize of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who actually wrote: 'It dwarfs the mind to feed it on any localism.'
Read MoreThe Prince of Now and Then
/He lost his famous mother when he was a boy, became a teen idol, had a storybook wedding, and he's second in line to be King of England. The monarchy Prince William inherits will be like nothing his predecessors have experienced - if it exists at all. "A Year with the Windsors" concludes.
Read MoreThe Steward
/He's been waiting for the throne longer than any Prince of Wales before him, and he's changed the nature of the monarchy while he's been waiting. But will we ever see King Charles III? 'A Year with the Windsors' takes a look at the heir.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy - Letter from Boston: Toward a New History
/Boston, so often reproved for living in its memories, may well be poised to lead the future, not in spite of its history but because of it.
Read MoreChairman of the Board
/Lodestar or mirror? Passé or ne plus ultra? Elizabeth II has presided with consistency over an inconsistent age. And what have we learned of her?
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “He had never tried to hide from himself his taste for the hazard of sin.”
/A Death in Summer is the fourth and best addition to the literate, elegant mystery series by Benjamin Black, the pen name of an award-winning author.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “This was either an accident, murder or an act of nature.”
/A promising new series is launched with a thoroughly captivating, quirky mystery set well off the beaten path, in a tiny village in Southern Thailand.
Read MoreA Very Ordinary Person
/When his brother the king abdicated, shy Prince Bertie suddenly became king - and he was just settling in when the World War II threw his kingdom into chaos. 'A Year with the Windsors' continues.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “God was not an intelligence officer.”
/David Ignatius writes superb novels of espionage from the perspective of the consummate insider. The latest is Bloodmoney.
Read MoreEdward the Last
/When he was Prince of Wales, he was the nation's darling, but when Edward VIII came to the throne, he became the greatest threat the monarchy had ever faced.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “He’s Satan in the skin of Everyman.”
/In the crowded field of new thrillers, John Verdon’s Shut Your Eyes Tight is right up there with the very best and not to be missed.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2011
/In this year's special feature, our team of avid readers offered some suggestions for books a little off the beaten path of summer blockbusters.
Read MoreSummer Reading 2011 Goes On
/More of this year's special feature, where we offered some less predictable ideas for books to tuck into your beach tote or suitcase.
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
/The seventh in Craig Johnson’s award-winning Sheriff Walt Longmire series, Hell Is Empty proves that when it comes to putting a contemporary spin on the lore of the old West, few writers do it better.
Read MoreOn the Scent: The Naturals
/It seems a given that natural scents would be preferable to synthetics, but might it be that our our perfume biases are too simplistic?
Read MorePrince Eddy and the Blackguards
/When the heir presumptive, Prince Eddy, died suddenly, the nation and empire was convulsed with mourning - and a century of speculation began! Had the lost prince been a simpleton, a saint, a catamite - even Jack the Ripper?
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