Classics Reissued: Marcel Proust - A Life
/A splendid reissue of the definitive Marcel Proust biography attempts to show readers the jester, the critic, and the energetic editor in addition to the garrulous fop
Read MoreBook Review: Bolivar
/The "George Washington of South America" was far more complex and interesting than his familiar tag-line suggests - as a big, fantastic new biography makes abundantly clear
Read MoreBook Review: Farside
/Science fiction grand master Ben Bova sets his latest novel on the far side of the moon
Read MoreBook Review: Lover at Last
/In her latest bestseller, J. R. Ward's two most loved (and lusted-after) bad-boy vampires finally get their turn in the spotlight
Read MoreRoger Ebert
/
Book Review: Christian Beginnings
/A new book by a legendary scholar charts the journey of early Christianity from a charismatic cult to the official religion of an empire
Read MoreRuth Prawer Jhabvala
/
Book Review: Roses Have Thorns
/A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself
Read MoreBook Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn
/She's an icon, a cautionary tale, a baleful notoriety - she's Anne Boleyn, who bewitched a king and drove him to remake a world, all for the sake of a dream she could never give him. A fascinating new book looks at the way all the ways history has made and re-made Henry VIII's most infamous queen
Read MoreBook Review: The Chalice
/An intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII
Read MoreThree AM, Outside the Pavilion
/If comic book artist P. Craig Russell didn't exist, we'd have to dream him up. Under the covers with a flashlight, Justin Hickey illuminates a pair of his sublime literature adaptations.
Read MoreSilly Like Us: W.H. Auden
/Coming of age after World War I, Auden took the alienation of his generation and sharpened it to a special keenness; he transformed his disaffected modernism into an immortal body of work that still challenges today.
Read MoreIn the Shadow of a Hero: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
/Traumatized by her baby’s kidnapping and murder, disappointed in her marriage to a fallen hero, Anne Morrow Lindbergh found hope in the beautiful, fragile shells she found on the beach. The result was her gentle masterpiece Gifts from the Sea.
Read MoreApproaching Auschwitz
/An incurious and indifferent Jew journeys to Auschwitz to confront the kitsch and the manicured ruins, looking for a sense of connection - and finding it in the most unlikely places
Read MoreThe Impossible Magic of Becoming
/Even the speaker in Jennifer Denrow's new book knows that the California she imagines is one she'll never visit, one that cannot possibly be real - but that's what makes it so alluring.
Read MoreMaster of the Morbid
/The lurid pathology of Patrick McGrath's fiction - its endless procession of madmen, derelicts, and misguided psychiatrists - can often blind us to the fact that he is first of all a historical novelist - and a great one.
Read MoreA Devil in the Details
/The ideal player for Capcom's new version of "Devil May Cry" must be a ballerina of death-dealing, striking down an endless array of foes with an endless array of weapons. But how will all of this strike the other-than-ideal player?
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy | GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE | Centerpiece 7
/"The Gods of Copley Square"s spirited multi-part examination of Boston's Trinity Church (and its indomitable bishop-saint) comes to its conclusion right where it should: at the heart of worship
Read MoreThe Second Line
/A poem
Read MoreThe Earl of Gallipoli
/The typical image of Winston Churchill comes from the dark days of World War II: a fat, old, bald Prime Minister eloquently defying Hitler's Germany. But before there was a monument there was a man, as an engaging new biography brings to light.
Read More
