Book Review: Cursed Victory
/A noted Israeli scholar and 'refusnik' writes a reserved and thorough history of the occupied territories
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/The popular Facebook-poster Jeff Nunokawa now has a book collecting his highlights
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/In the new novel from James Cambias, a space pirate in the near future - and the enforcer hunting him - encounter something neither one expects
Read MoreBook Review: John Knox
/The firebrand preacher and founder of the Presbyterian denomination is the subject of a masterful new biography
Read MoreBook Review: When the Heavens Fall
/When a renegade mage steals a powerful book of sorcery, the world of Marc Turner's fantasy debut is plunged into a disturbing new form of warfare
Read MoreBook Review: JFK and LBJ - The Last Two Great Presidents
/A former British White House correspondent looks back half a century at the two titans who ruled a now-vanished Washington
Read MoreBook Review: Faith vs. Fact
/Religion and science - the so-called "non-overlapping magisteria" - are actually deeply adversarial, writes "Why Evolution is True" author Jerry Coyne
Read MoreThe 69th Annual Edgar Awards
/Crime columnist Irma Heldman reports on the winners, the sinners, and the dinner at the 2015 Edgar Awards
Read MoreBook Review: You Will Never Find Me
/Charles Boxer and Mercy Danquah are both kidnap specialists who've solved many tough cases. But in their latest, the missing person is their own daughter - and she doesn't want to be found
Read MoreBook Review: The Constitution - An Introduction
/The US Constitution - the oldest in the world - gets a comprehensive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: The Death's Head Chess Club
/Two men meet by chance in a 1960s cafe - and remember a time twenty years earlier when they were captor and prisoner at Auschwitz
Read MoreBook Review: Vanishing
/Is the artist painting heath landscapes in England during World War II a mild-mannered hero of military campaigns or a spy? Gerard Woodward's spellbinding novel starts there and then travels over the whole of an improbable life story
Read MoreBook Review: Where I'm Reading From
/The Tim Parks essays collected in this pretty volume range over the whole landscape of the book-world, from endangered copyright to foreign-lit chic to the inescapability of Jonathan Franzen
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Read MoreBook Review: Lords of the Sith
/In the latest Star Wars novel, Darth Vader and his evil Emperor are trapped on a hostile world, being hunted by man and beast
Read More'I'm the Top Goddess – How Could I Fail to Make Trouble?'
/Renowned classicist and historian Peter Green has at last produced a translation of the Iliad - and it comes with its own Greek Chorus. Steve Donoghue investigates.
Read MoreThe Great Blacksby
/If Richard Pryor had spent time in the ghettos of L.A. County and had any interest in writing a novel, he might have come up with a book like Paul Beatty's The Sellout: a beautifully offensive meditation on riches and race.
Read MoreThe Schizophrenic Prophet
/A sumptuous new Library of America volume contains a rich sampling of the work of Reinhold Niebuhr - whom reviewer Robert Minto refers to as "the premiere establishment theologian of the 20th century."
Read MoreA Cycle of Horrifying Songs
/Schubert's bleak, tumultuous song cycle, Winterreise, is the subject of tenor Ian Bostridge's passionate new book. Greg Waldmann examines Schubert's Winter Journey, and the trouble with hard-to-love classical music.
Read More“Are You Living or Dead?”
/Usually Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators implicate us in their world, reminding us of all we have in common. But in his new novel we are strangers looking at an unrecognizable landscape.
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