Book Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich
/A new book looks at the little-known figure of Hitler's chosen successor
Read MoreBook Review: Prisoners of Hope
/A generation ago, President Johnson enacted a stunning array of social legislation, the full audacity of which has often been overshadowed by the other aspects of LBJ's presidency. A new book shines a light on the Great Society.
Read MoreBook Review: The First Nazi
/How much of the evil of Adolf Hitler can be traced to an infamous general of the First World War?
Read MoreDiscussion: Middlemarch for Book Clubs
/Open Letters Senior Editor Rohan Maitzen discusses her new ebook, Middlemarch for Book Clubs
Read MoreBook Review: Valiant Ambition
/The infamous treachery of Benedict Arnold gets a vigorous and richly detailed new retelling by the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea.
Read MoreSecond Glance: The Secret of Prometheus
/The oldest texts can seem familiar, but they repay attention with strangeness. Robert Minto delves into the religious origins and unresolved mysteries of Prometheus Bound.
Read MoreA Period of Most Powerful Transition
/In his world-ranging new popular history Heyday, Ben Wilson looks at the Great Exhibition of 1851 as a focal point of the 19th-century grand dream of commerce and culture. Zach Rabiroff reviews.
Read MoreAtomic Turquoise Bat Mitzvah
/A startling alien legacy is dug up out of the ground in Sylvain Neuvel's stellar debut novel Sleeping Giants. Justin Hickey reviews.
Read MoreChange the Way They Live
/As Andrew Bacevich relates in his important new book, US involvement in the Middle East has been characterized by confusion, mistakes, and blundering military force. Greg Waldmann reviews America's War for the Greater Middle East.
Read Morefrom To Duration
/a poem, translated by Scott Abbott
Read More'Yes, Yes, Yes!'
/To be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreSimulacrum
/The intense problematics of Don DeLillo's literary preoccupations are on full display in his latest, Zero K. Dan Green explores the legacy of an author's postmodernism.
Read MoreEXISTENTIAL REPTILE REVERIE
/a poem
Read MoreSecond Glance: Njal’s Saga
/Njal's Saga is a myth based on history, a narrative about the effect of religion on a culture of revenge. Matt Ray takes us to medieval Iceland.
Read MoreFrom Some Mountain Summit High in the Air: Lord Acton and History
/History remembers him as the author of the famous dictum about power corrupting, but Lord Acton led an intense and fascinating life. Luciano Mangiafico tells his story.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Folly is like regret, it knows no limits”
/Old loyalties lead to explosive new dangers in two new mystery-thrillers set in North Carolina and Northern Ireland.
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