Book Review: California
/After a handily vague apocalypse, a forlorn hipster couple bickers in the woods in Edan Lepucki's much-hyped debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Great War for Peace
/Did the cataclysmic First World War actually have a hidden peace-dividend? Did it change the vocabulary of rapprochement forever? A vigorous new study makes a daring case
Read MoreBook Review: Landline
/If you found a phone that could make calls to your own past, how would you use it? Or would you use it at all?
Read MoreBook Review: War of Attrition
/One of the foremost historians of the First World War offers a comprehensive and brutal overview of the conflict that gave birth to the modern world
Read MoreBook Review: A Mad Catastrophe
/A gripping account of the final days of the inept, tottering Austro-Hungarian empire - and the military apocalypse it helped to usher in
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Richard III
/The discovery of Richard III's skeleton in 2012 has flushed a number of books about the legendary dark monarch back into print - and none more welcome than this snappy volume by veteran biographer Desmond Seward
Read MoreBook Review: Season to Taste
/A discontented English housewife impulsively kills her husband and is then faced with the logistical problem of what to do with his body. In Natalie Young's chillingly readable new novel, that housewife does what comes naturally
Read MoreBook Review: On the World and Religious Life
/A great Renaissance humanist and city chancellor bucked up a friend entering holy orders by writing a stirring pamphlet condemning the joys of the secular world - and then the great humanist put down his pen and enjoyed an excellent supper of lemon-basted chicken, fresh salad, iced creams, and a fine Rhenish red wine, then perhaps a romp in bed with his pretty wife.
Read MoreBook Review: The Visitors
/In Sally Beauman's new novel, a young girl sent to Egypt for her health becomes entangled in dramatic events surrounding Howard Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb ...
Read MoreBook Review: Facts and Inventions
/The boozy, gossipy author of "The Life of Johnson" was a working journalist-hack for the whole of his life, but hardly any of that material has been cleaned up and presented to the modern reader - until now, in a groundbreaking new volume from Yale University Press
Read MoreBook Review: The Unknown Lloyd George
/One of the greatest British Prime Ministers of them all gets an authoritative new biography
Read MoreDream-to-Desk
/Michael Cunningham's beautiful new novel The Snow Queen follows the wisdom of fairy tales: its revelations occur at dusk, because the hour of despair is the most fertile of the day.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 12 Hot Summer Reads
/It's summer at last, and you won't find any relief from the heat in our editors' round-up of the hottest books they know.
Read MoreIt Wasn't Palimpsestuous
/The collectors of rare 78 rpm records are nearly as singular and remarkable as the vinyl they seek out. A new book travels to flea markets and music fairs to discover the secrets of these American obsessives.
Read MorePashtunwali
/Of all the borders in the world, the Durand line is perhaps the most dangerous. A new book seeks to explain the Taliban, who plague the peoples on both sides of it.
Read MoreWilson 2.0
/Daniel Wilson's first book, Robopocalypse was a straightforward adventure story about robots rising up against their human makers. His new book takes that simple premise and expands on it in complex and timely ways.
Read MoreThe Reign of Saturn
/Babe Ruth, Mayor Walker, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Parker - New York City in the Jazz Age was a bristling landscape of giants, most of them from out of town. A vast and enthralling new history tells the stories of the people who made the Big Apple.
Read Morecanes domini
/a poem
Read More2nd Amendment Fundamentalists
/"You can throw out every damn other thing in the Constitution, as long as you don't touch my guns," one Southern U.S. Senator famously bellowed, perfectly typifying a certain psychosis. A new book picks fights on history of American gun law.
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