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Book Title   /   Author Article Title   /   Author  Date
Dark Harbor. The War for the New York Waterfront 
by Nathan Ward
Remembering the Reporter Who Inspired 'On the Waterfront'
by SAUL ROSENBERG
 Jul 26, 2010
Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century 
by Philip Terzian
How Quest for American Dominance Drove Roosevelt, Eisenhower
by SAUL ROSENBERG
 Jun 27, 2010
The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson 
by Menachem Friedman and Samuel Heilman
A Towering Spiritual Leader Finds His Biographers, At Last
by SAUL ROSENBERG
 Jun 21, 2010
Spies of the Balkans: A Novel 
by Alan Furst
Greece in the Shadow of the Nazis
by SAUL ROSENBERG
 Jun 8, 2010
Hitch-22 
by Christopher Hitchens
Half Way There
by SAUL ROSENBERG
 May 26, 2010
Loneliness as a Way of Life 
by Thomas Dumm
All Alone: Two New Books on Loneliness
by CHRISTOPHER LANE
 Sep 30, 2008
The Alcoholic 
by Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames Gets Real in a Graphic Novel
by DAN AVERY
 Sep 30, 2008
The Flying Troutmans 
by Miriam Toews
Drowning in the Desert: Miriam Toews's 'The Flying Troutmans'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Sep 29, 2008
Philanthrocapitalism 
by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
The New Face of Philanthropy
by RICHARD TOFEL
 Sep 26, 2008
The Culture of War 
by Martin van Creveld
Why We Fight: Martin van Creveld's 'The Culture of War'
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
 Sep 24, 2008
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel 
by William Goldbloom Bloch
A Universe of Books: Borges's 'Library of Babel'
by ALBERTO MANGUEL
 Sep 24, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello 
by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Peculiar Association: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 24, 2008
Hitler's Private Library 
by Timothy W. Ryback
Timothy Ryback's 'Hitler's Private Library'
by IAN KERSHAW
 Sep 24, 2008
Helena, or the Sea in Summer 
by Julián Ayesta
The Novel as Idyll: Julián Ayesta's 'Helena, or the Sea in Summer'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 24, 2008
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds 
by Joel L. Kraemer
The Great Rambam: Joel Kraemer's 'Maimonides'
by STEVEN NADLER
 Sep 24, 2008
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books 
by Fernando Báez
Book-Burning and Other Bibliocausts
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 24, 2008
Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France 
by Agnès Humbert
Agnès Humbert's Wartime Diary 'Résistance'
by SIMON KITSON
 Sep 24, 2008
The Brass Verdict 
by Michael Connelly
The Crime Scene: A Great Pair
by OTTO PENZLER
 Sep 24, 2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
by Stieg Larsson
Swedish Intrigue on an Isle: 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
by MARTHA MERCER
 Sep 22, 2008
Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World 
by Jed Perl
In Search of Watteau: Jed Perl's 'Antoine's Alphabet'
by JAMES PANERO
 Sep 17, 2008
Benjamin Disraeli 
by Adam Kirsch
The Making of Benjamin Disraeli: Adam Kirsch's New Biography
by TODD M. ENDELMAN
 Sep 17, 2008
Kieron Smith, boy 
by James Kelman
Boy Wonder: James Kelman's New Novel
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 17, 2008
The Feminine Mystique 
by Betty Friedan
Reconsiderations: Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'
by CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
 Sep 17, 2008
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões 
by Luís de Camões
The Laureate of Hard Luck: 'The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 17, 2008
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature 
by John Mullan
Hiding Behind the Spines: 'Anonymity' by John Mullan
by DENIS DONOGHUE
 Sep 17, 2008
People Who Walk in Darkness 
by Stuart Kaminsky
The Crime Scene: Russian Front
by OTTO PENZLER
 Sep 17, 2008
The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow  Against Oblivion: 'The Terezin Album of Marianka Zadikow'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 17, 2008
Ms. Hempel Chronicles 
by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Her So-Called Life: Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's 'Ms. Hempel Chronicles'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Sep 15, 2008
Infinite Jest 
by David Foster Wallace
What David Foster Wallace Left Behind
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 15, 2008
The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008 
by Bob Woodward
A Few of the President's Men: Woodward's 'The War Within'
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Sep 11, 2008
The Proof of God: The Debate That Shaped Modern Belief 
by Larry Witham
The World Inside My Head: Larry Witham's 'Proof of God'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 10, 2008
Small Lives 
by Pierre Michon
Mourning and Melancholia: Pierre Michon's 'Small Lives'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 10, 2008
Indignation 
by Philip Roth
Back to School: Philip Roth's 'Indignation'
by RUTH FRANKLIN
 Sep 10, 2008
Left in Dark Times 
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
The God That Failed: 'Left in Dark Times' by Bernard-Henri Lévy
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 10, 2008
Nothing To Be Frightened Of 
by Julian Barnes
The Naked and the Dead: Julian Barnes's 'Nothing To Be Frightened Of'
by MICHAEL WOOD
 Sep 10, 2008
Novel About My Wife 
by Emily Perkins
Navel-Gazing: Emily Perkins's 'Novel About My Wife'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Sep 8, 2008
The Secret Life of Words 
by Henry Hitchings
English, the Omnivorous Tongue: Henry Hitchings's 'Secret Life of Words'
by CALEB CRAIN
 Sep 4, 2008
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington 
by Jennet Conant
The Fantasic Mr. Dahl: Jennet Conant's 'The Irregulars'
by ROBERT WINDER
 Sep 3, 2008
Home 
by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping: Marilynne Robinson's 'Home'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 3, 2008
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe 
by Mark Mazower
An Empire of Blood: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 3, 2008
Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark 
by James Campbell
The Voice of Fiction: James Campbell's 'Syncopations'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 3, 2008
Rock Crystal 
by Adalbert Stifter
The Magic Mountain: Adalbert Stifter's 'Rock Crystal'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 29, 2008
A Night in the Cemetery 
by Anton Chekhov
The Crime Scene: Anton Chekhov's Crime Fiction
by OTTO PENZLER
 Aug 27, 2008
Stories 
by Doris Lessing
Beyond Politics: The Stories of Doris Lessing and D.H. Lawrence
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 27, 2008
The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville 
by Derek Hyra
The Way We Gentrify Now: Derek Hyra's 'New Urban Renewal'
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Aug 27, 2008
Selected Stories 
by D.H. Lawrence
Beyond Politics: The Stories of Doris Lessing and D.H. Lawrence
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 27, 2008
The Thing Itself 
by Richard Todd
The Real Thing: Richard Todd's Meditation on Authenticity
by SIMON BLACKBURN
 Aug 27, 2008
The Forger's Spell 
by Edward Dolnick
The Forger as Huckster: Two Books on Han van Meegeren
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 27, 2008
The Other Half 
by Tom Buk-Swienty
How Jacob Riis Lived: Tom Buk-Swienty's 'The Other Half'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 27, 2008
American Wife 
by Curtis Sittenfeld
When Bookish Girl Meets Party Boy: Curtis Sittenfeld's 'American Wife'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Aug 25, 2008
Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel 
by Julia Keller
A Man and His Gun: 'Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 20, 2008
Freedom's Battle 
by Gary Bass
Adjusting the Theory of Just War: Gary Bass's 'Freedom's Battle'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 20, 2008
Something To Tell You 
by Hanif Kureishi
Tales from Londonistan: Hanif Kureishi's 'Something To Tell You'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 20, 2008
The Turnaround 
by George Pelecanos
The Crime Scene: George Pelecanos' 'The Turnaround'
by OTTO PENZLER
 Aug 20, 2008
Leningrad: State of Siege 
by Michael Jones
Under Siege: Michael Jones' 'Leningrad'
by RICHARD J. EVANS
 Aug 20, 2008
Lincoln at Peoria 
by Lewis E. Lehrman
When Lincoln Became Lincoln: Lewis Lehrman's 'Lincoln at Peoria'
by HAROLD HOLZER
 Aug 20, 2008
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order 
by Joan Wickersham
A Self-Inflicted Death: Joan Wickersham's 'The Suicide Index'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Aug 18, 2008
The First Poems in English  Bold English: Anglo-Saxon Poetry
by JEREMY AXELROD
 Aug 14, 2008
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism  Harvesting the Waste Land: An Anthology of New Criticism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 13, 2008
How Fiction Works 
by James Wood
Flaubert's Overcoat: James Wood's 'How Fiction Works'
by DENIS DONOGHUE
 Aug 13, 2008
What Happened at Vatican II  The Living Church: Revisiting Vatican II
by RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS
 Aug 13, 2008
This Must Be the Place 
by Anna Winger
Anna Winger's 'This Must Be the Place' & Théophile Gautier's 'My Fantoms'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 13, 2008
My Fantoms 
by Théophile Gautier
Anna Winger's 'This Must Be the Place' & Théophile Gautier's 'My Fantoms'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 13, 2008
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 
by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running'
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 Aug 13, 2008
Gulistan  Wisdom Like a Flower Bed: Sa'di's 'Gulistan'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 13, 2008
The Wrecking Crew 
by Thomas Frank
What's the Matter With Thomas Frank?
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Aug 12, 2008
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth 
by Xiaolu Guo
Young & Single in Beijing: 'Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Aug 11, 2008
Traffic 
by Tom Vanderbilt
Crash Course
by REIHAN SALAM
 Aug 6, 2008
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
by Brenda Wineapple
The Activist and the Recluse
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 6, 2008
Demons 
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Demons Inner and Outer
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 6, 2008
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power 
by Jonathan Mahler
Hamdan's Trumpet
by SETH LIPSKY
 Aug 6, 2008
One More Year 
by Sana Krasikov
Minding Manners
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 6, 2008
Democracy: An American Novel 
by Henry Brooks Adams
Minding Manners
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 6, 2008
The Return of History and the End of Dreams 
by Robert Kagan
The Shape of Things To Come
by CONRAD BLACK
 Aug 4, 2008
The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III 
by David Deans
A Window View of Parrots and Peril: 'The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash III'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Aug 4, 2008
Enemies of Promise 
by Cyril Connolly
Controlled Blazes: Cyril Connolly's 'Enemies of Promise'
by MARCO ROTH
 Jul 30, 2008
Travel Writing 
by Peter Ferry
On the Road: 'Travel Writing' and 'Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 30, 2008
Black and White and Dead All Over 
by John Darnton
The Crime Scene: John Darnton's 'Black, White, and Dead All Over'
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jul 30, 2008
Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine 
by Stanley Crawford
On the Road: 'Travel Writing' and 'Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 30, 2008
The Power of Place 
by Harm de Blij
Is Geography Destiny?
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Jul 30, 2008
A Manuscript of Ashes 
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Tilting at Spanish History: 'A Manuscript of Ashes' by Antonio Muñoz Molina
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 30, 2008
The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War 
by David Lebedoff
Against the Day: David Lebedoff on Orwell and Waugh
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 30, 2008
The Forsaken 
by Tim Tzouliadis
Banished: 'The Forsaken' by Tim Tzouliadis
by RICHARD PIPES
 Jul 30, 2008
Emma's Table 
by Philip Galanes
Mostly Martha: Philip Galanes's 'Emma's Table'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jul 28, 2008
Mafeking Road 
by Herman Charles Bosman
War & Peace: Azuela's 'Underdogs' and Bosman's 'Mafeking Road'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 23, 2008
Habits of Empire 
by Walter Nugent
Frontier Exegesis: Walter Nugent's 'Habits of Empire'
by DANIEL WALKER HOWE
 Jul 23, 2008
Hit and Run 
by Lawrence Block
The Crime Scene: 'Hit and Run' by Lawrence Block
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jul 23, 2008
The Invention of Scotland 
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper's 'The Invention of Scotland'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 23, 2008
Anglophilia 
by Elisa Tamarkin
The Special Relationship: Elisa Tamarkin's 'Anglophilia'
by HUGH BROGAN
 Jul 23, 2008
Imagining Spain: Historical Myth & National Identity 
by Henry Kamen
The Country of Quixote: Henry Kamen's 'Imagining Spain'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 23, 2008
The Underdogs 
by Mariano Azuela
War & Peace: Azuela's 'Underdogs' and Bosman's 'Mafeking Road'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 23, 2008
A Path Out of the Desert 
by Ken Pollack
The Way Forward: Ken Pollack's 'A Path Out of the Desert'
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 Jul 22, 2008
Ark of the Liberties 
by Ted Widmer
A Nation on a Hill: Ted Widmer's 'Ark of Liberties'
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Jul 22, 2008
The Amnesiac 
by Sam Taylor
The Missing Years: Sam Taylor's 'The Amnesiac'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jul 21, 2008
Termites in the Trading System 
by Jagdish Bhagwati
How Free Is Free Trade?: Bhagwati's 'Termites in the Trading System'
by DOUGLAS A. IRWIN
 Jul 21, 2008
The Dominant Animal 
by Anne Ehrlich and Paul Ehrlich
It's Our Earth, Now What Do We Do With It?
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Jul 18, 2008
Dinner With a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo 
by Carole Travis-Henikoff
Man-Eaters: Carole Travis-Henikoff's 'Dinner With a Cannibal'
by CHRISTINE KENNEALLY
 Jul 18, 2008
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique 
by Michael Gazzaniga
The World Inside Our Heads: 'Human' by Michael Gazzaniga
by ANDREW NEWBERG
 Jul 18, 2008
Real World 
by Natsuo Kirino
Coming of Age in Tokyo: Natsuo Kirino's 'Real World'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 16, 2008
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography 
by Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly's Romance With Keats
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 16, 2008
Paradise Lost 
by Giles Milton
The Ruined City of Smyrna: Giles Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 16, 2008
Devil May Care 
by Sebastian Faulks
The Crime Scene: New Looks at Old James Bond
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jul 16, 2008
The Moneypenny Diaries  The Crime Scene: New Looks at Old James Bond
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jul 16, 2008
My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare 
by Jess Winfield
Reduced Shakespeare: Jess Winfield's 'My Name Is Will'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jul 14, 2008
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark 
by Don Thompson
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Art Market in 2008
by TYLER COWEN
 Jul 10, 2008
The Big Sort 
by Bill Bishop
Dividing Lines: Bill Bishop's 'The Big Sort'
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Jul 9, 2008
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight 
by Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Émigré: Nabokov's First Forays Into English
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 9, 2008
Letter to My Father 
by Franz Kafka
Man and His Maker: Kafka's 'Letter to My Father'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 9, 2008
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand 
by Richard Reeves
A Man for All Seasons: 'John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 9, 2008
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head 
by Louis Begley
King of Infinite Space: Louis Begley's Kafka Book
by MICHAEL WOOD
 Jul 9, 2008
Chasing Darkness 
by Robert Crais
The Crime Scene: Chasing Darkness, Finding Light
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jul 9, 2008
The Sister 
by Poppy Adams
Out of the Chrysalis: Poppy Adams's 'The Sister'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jul 7, 2008
Revolutionary Road 
by Richard Yates
Reconsiderations: Richard Yates's 'Revolutionary Road'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 2, 2008
The Road to Monticello 
by Kevin Hayes
Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 2, 2008
The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge 
by Jamie James
Snake-Bitten, Twice Shy: Jamie James's 'The Snake Charmer'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 2, 2008
Stop Me If You've Heard This 
by Harry Frankfurt
Stand-Up Philosophy: 'Stop Me If You've Heard This'
by SIMON BLACKBURN
 Jul 2, 2008
Conquest 
by David Day
Marking Our Territory: 'Conquest' by David Day
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
 Jul 2, 2008
Why I Came West: A Memoir 
by Rick Bass
Go Purple, Young Man: Rick Bass's 'Why We Came West'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 2, 2008
Grand New Party 
by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
Forging a Conservative Future: 'Grand New Party'
by ELI LAKE
 Jul 1, 2008
What Was Lost  Scenes From a Mall: Catherine O'Flynn's 'What Was Lost'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 30, 2008
Love Today 
by Maxim Biller
A Botanical Garden of Desire: 'Love Today' by Maxim Biller
by SAM MUNSON
 Jun 26, 2008
The Spies of Warsaw 
by Alan Furst
The Crime Scene: Spies & More Spies
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jun 25, 2008
The Black Death 
by John Hatcher
'The Black Death,' John Hatcher's Remarkable History of the Plague
by SIMON WINCHESTER
 Jun 25, 2008
London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London 
by Leo Hollis
After the Great Fire: 'London Rising'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 25, 2008
Barbarians to Angels 
by Peter Wells
How Dark Was It? A New History of Medieval Europe
by DIARMAID MacCULLOCH
 Jun 25, 2008
December 
by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
The Secret Life of Children
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jun 25, 2008
Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant 
by Renee Winegarten
A Tale of Two Lovers: de Staël and Constant
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 25, 2008
America America 
by Ethan Canin
The Gospel of Wealth: 'America America'
by HUA HSU
 Jun 23, 2008
August: Osage County 
by Tracy Letts
Finding Drama Between the Covers
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 23, 2008
The Seafarer 
by Conor McPherson
Finding Drama Between the Covers
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 23, 2008
Nixonland 
by Rick Perlstein
Escape from 'Nixonland'
by CONRAD BLACK
 Jun 19, 2008
The Unthinkable 
by Amanda Ripley
Panic Attack: 'The Unthinkable' by Amanda Ripley
by GRAEME WOOD
 Jun 18, 2008
Travel Pictures 
by Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine's High-Altitude Irony
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jun 18, 2008
Life Studies 
by Robert Lowell
Reconsiderations: 'Life Studies' by Robert Lowell
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 18, 2008
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter 
by Seth Lerer
Out of Aesop's Overcoat: Two Histories of Children's Literature
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 18, 2008
Minders of Make-Believe 
by Leonard S. Marcus
Out of Aesop's Overcoat: Two Histories of Children's Literature
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 18, 2008
Sovereignty: God, State, and Self 
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Origins of Power: Jean Bethke Elshtain's 'Sovereignty'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 18, 2008
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia 
by Marshall Goldman
Putin's Giant Chess Game: 'Petrostate'
by MARTHA MERCER
 Jun 18, 2008
The German Bride 
by Joanna Hershon
Rough Crossings: Joanna Hershon's 'The German Bride'
by GABRIELLE BIRKNER
 Jun 17, 2008
Abbeville 
by Jack Fuller
Where the Roots Lead: Jack Fuller's 'Abbeville'
by GARY SHAPIRO
 Jun 17, 2008
Out of Mao's Shadow 
by Philip Pan
Letters From China, Written in Blood
by GORDON G. CHANG
 Jun 16, 2008
Happy Trails to You 
by Julie Hecht
Decline and Fall: Julie Hecht's 'Happy Trails to You'
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 16, 2008
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition 
by Robert Pogue Harrison
Roots of Civilization: Robert Pogue Harrison's 'Gardens'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 11, 2008
The Tropics of Empire 
by Nicolás Wey Gómez
Christopher Columbus and the Shape of Things to Come
by ALFRED W. CROSBY
 Jun 11, 2008
The Unfortunates 
by B.S. Johnson
Shuffling Through Memories: B.S. Johnson's 'The Unfortunates'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jun 11, 2008
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War 
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan's Know-Nothing History
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 11, 2008
Political Liberalism 
by John Rawls
Reconsiderations: John Rawls and Our Plural Nation
by MARTHA NUSSBAUM
 Jun 11, 2008
The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam  Railways: When Artists Look Down the Track
by CHARLOTTE COWLES
 Jun 9, 2008
Dinosaurs on the Roof 
by David Rabe
Flights of Angels
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 9, 2008
The Slaves' War 
by Andrew Ward
Battle Cry of Freedom: Andrew Ward's 'The Slaves' War'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 4, 2008
The Great Transformation 
by Karl Polanyi
Reconsiderations: 'The Great Transformation' by Karl Polanyi
by GREGORY CLARK
 Jun 4, 2008
Let's See 
by Peter Schjeldahl
Art's Willing Executioner: Peter Schjeldahl's 'Let's See'
by JAMES PANERO
 Jun 4, 2008
What Happened 
by Scott McClellan
Scott McClellan's Tell-Nothing Tell-All
by ELI LAKE
 Jun 2, 2008
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief 
by Ann Hood
Grace Is Gone: A Mother's Memoir of Grief
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 Jun 2, 2008
Patriot Pirates 
by Robert H. Patton
Our Privateer History: 'Patriot Pirates'
by MATTHEW PRICE
 May 30, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure 
by Philip Gourevitch
Inside Abu Ghraib: 'Standard Operating Procedure'
by SETH LIPSKY
 May 29, 2008
Nixonland 
by Rick Perlstein
'Nixonland,' Chronicling a Political Sea Change
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 29, 2008
The Age of Reagan 
by Sean Wilentz
Ronald Reagan's World
by RONALD RADOSH
 May 29, 2008
Unforgiving Years 
by Victor Serge
On the Revolutionary Road: Victor Serge's 'Unforgiving Years'
by ERIC ORMSBY
 May 28, 2008
Defending Identity 
by Natan Sharansky
The Foundation of Democracy: Sharansky's 'Defending Identity'
by IRA STOLL
 May 28, 2008
Original Sin: A Cultural History 
by Alan Jacobs
Where It All Went Wrong: 'Original Sin' by Alan Jacobs
by BRUCE CHILTON
 May 28, 2008
The Enchantress of Florence 
by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie: Knight of the Tall Tale
by MARCO ROTH
 May 28, 2008
Atmospheric Disturbances 
by Rivka Galchen
A Slight Trick of the Mind: Rivka Galchen's 'Atmospheric Disturbances'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 28, 2008
Senselessness 
by Horacio Moya
Standing Witness: Horacio Moya's 'Senselessness'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 28, 2008
Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History 
by Richard Haw
Bridge of Inspiration
by CHARLOTTE COWLES
 May 23, 2008
The Boat 
by Nam Le
How To Make Fiction Now
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 21, 2008
Beyond the Hoax 
by Sokal Alan
Fight for the Life Of the Mind
by MICHAEL SHERMER
 May 21, 2008
Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare? 
by Nigel Smith
Doing Battle With the Bard
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 21, 2008
The Finder 
by Colin Harrison
Good Pharma, Bad Karma
by OTTO PENZLER
 May 21, 2008
Einstein & Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius 
by Silvan S. Schweber
Geniuses and the Men Hidden Inside Them
by ERIC ORMSBY
 May 21, 2008
History Lesson: A Race Odyssey 
by Mary Lefkowitz
Siege of the Ivory Tower
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 May 21, 2008
Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Soviet Archives 
by Paul R. Gregory
A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 May 21, 2008
God and Man at Yale 
by William F. (Jr.) Buckley
Classroom Warfare
by JOHN McWHORTER
 May 21, 2008
Why We're Liberals 
by Eric Alterman
Dart-Throwing on the Left
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 20, 2008
Right is Wrong 
by Arianna Huffington
Dart-Throwing on the Left
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 20, 2008
American Nerd: The Story of My People 
by Benjamin Nugent
Dungeons, Dragons & Nerds
by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
 May 19, 2008
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire 
by Peter Clarke
Decline and Fall: Peter Clarke's 'The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire'
by DOMINIC SANDBROOK
 May 14, 2008
Quiver 
by Peter Leonard
Quivering With Excitement
by OTTO PENZLER
 May 14, 2008
The Post-Office Girl 
by Stefan Zweig
What Lives On
by ERIC ORMSBY
 May 14, 2008
Afloat 
by Guy de Maupassant
On Holiday
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 14, 2008
Bright Shiny Morning 
by James Frey
Crash and Burn
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 14, 2008
The Unheavenly City 
by Edward Banfield
The Life Of the City
by EDWARD GLAESER
 May 14, 2008
The Endless City  Our Urban Future
by REIHAN SALAM
 May 14, 2008
Baking With Agave Nectar 
by Ania Catalano
Baking Made Natural
by JULIE WIENER
 May 14, 2008
Microcosm 
by Carl Zimmer
E. coli, King Of All Bacteria
by GRAEME WOOD
 May 14, 2008
The Girl on the Fridge 
by Etgar Keret
Short Bursts of Sentiment
by SAM MUNSON
 May 13, 2008
The Revolution: A Manifesto 
by Ron Paul
The Revolution Will Not Be Nominated
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 May 12, 2008
The Importance of Music to Girls 
by Lavinia Greenlaw
A Girl's Life, Song by Song
by JAYANTHI DANIEL
 May 12, 2008
Invasions 
by Adam Kirsch
Beyond Formalism: Adam Kirsch's "Invasions"
by WES DAVIS
 May 9, 2008
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad 
by Andrew McCarthy
Setting the Record Straight: What We Learned in 1993
by ANDREW McCARTHY and LAURIE MYLROIE
 May 8, 2008
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories 
by Tobias Wolff
The American Carnival: Tobias Wolff's 'Our Story Begins'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 7, 2008
The Battle for Wine and Love 
by Alice Feiring
Food Blogger Takes on the Biggest Name in Wine: Robert Parker
by PETER HELLMAN
 May 7, 2008
Tintin and the Secret of Literature 
by Tom McCarthy
Pulling Back the Curtain on Hergé
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 7, 2008
The Protestant Establishment 
by E. Digby Baltzell
Changing of the Guard in Digby Baltzell's 'The Protestant Establishment'
by EDITH KURZWEIL
 May 7, 2008
Newton 
by Peter Ackroyd
Newton's Single Vision
by ERIC ORMSBY
 May 7, 2008
A Conservative History of the American Left 
by Daniel J. Flynn
The View From the Right: 'A Conservative History of the American Left'
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 5, 2008
The 30-Second Seduction 
by Andrea Gardner
Different Methods Marketers Use To Lure Men and Women
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 May 2, 2008
Branded Male: Marketing to Men 
by Mark Tungate
Different Methods Marketers Use To Lure Men and Women
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 May 2, 2008
Mad, Bad, and Sad 
by Lisa Appignanesi
Female Trouble: 'Mad, Bad, and Sad'
by DAPHNE MERKIN
 May 1, 2008
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War 
by Benny Morris
The Fight Over '1948'
by EFRAIM KARSH
 May 1, 2008
Child 44 
by Tom Rob Smith
Crime Scene: Red Blood
by OTTO PENZLER
 Apr 30, 2008
The Post-American World 
by Fareed Zakaria
After America: Fareed Zakaria's 'Post-American World'
by PETER BERKOWITZ
 Apr 30, 2008
Poems of the Late T'ang  The Lovely Bones: Poems of the Late T'ang
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 30, 2008
Moral Clarity 
by Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman's Metaphysics of Morals
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 30, 2008
The Waitress Was New 
by Dominique Fabre
A Clean, Well-Lighted Life: Dominque Fabre's "The Waitress Was New"
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 30, 2008
Anarchy, State, and Utopia 
by Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick and the Coast of Utopia
by DAVID LEWIS SCHAEFER
 Apr 30, 2008
The Night Tourist 
by Katherine Marsh
'The Night Tourist': Grand Central by Night
by FRITZIE ANDRADE
 Apr 29, 2008
Lavinia 
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin's Gloss on the 'Aeneid'
by SAM MUNSON
 Apr 29, 2008
Attachment 
by Isabel Fonseca
Isabel Fonseca, Traitor in the War Against Cliché
by ADELLE WALDMAN
 Apr 29, 2008
The White Tiger 
by Aravind Adiga
India's Native Son: Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger'
by SCOTT MEDINTZ
 Apr 29, 2008
The Powers to Lead 
by Joseph Nye
Joseph Nye on Leadership
by ROBERT FAULKNER
 Apr 29, 2008
Moment of Truth in Iraq 
by Michael Yon
Michael Yon Gives Voice to the Troops
by ELI LAKE
 Apr 28, 2008
The Corpse Walker 
by Liao Yiwu
Listening to the Past: Liao Yiwu's 'Corpse Walker'
by MEGAN BUSKEY
 Apr 24, 2008
The Craftsman 
by Richard Sennett
Of Crafts and Craftsmen
by JEREMY AXELROD
 Apr 23, 2008
Eternal Enemies 
by Adam Zagajewski
David Yezzi and Adam Zagajewski: Songs of Innocence and Experience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 23, 2008
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone 
by Saša Stanišić
The Naïve Fiction of Saša Stanišić
by SAM MUNSON
 Apr 23, 2008
Azores 
by David Yezzi
David Yezzi and Adam Zagajewski: Songs of Innocence and Experience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 23, 2008
The Selfish Gene 
by Richard Dawkins
Reconsiderations: Richard Dawkins and His Selfish Meme
by PAT SHIPMAN
 Apr 23, 2008
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam 
by Pope Brock
America's Leading Flimflam Man
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 23, 2008
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad 
by Andrew McCarthy
Willful Blindness: Prosecuting the War on Terror
by LAURIE MYLROIE
 Apr 23, 2008
Aftershocks 
by Grete Weil
Grete Weil's 'Aftershocks'
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 23, 2008
Heads in the Sand 
by Matthew Yglesias
This Liberal Imagination
by ELI LAKE
 Apr 22, 2008
Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems 
by Eugen Jebeleanu
A Quiet Protest
by PRISCILLA BECKER
 Apr 21, 2008
Common Wealth 
by Jeffrey Sachs
The Tinkerer's Manifesto
by GREGORY CLARK
 Apr 21, 2008
The Szyk Haggadah  The Passover Story, Illuminated
by GABRIELLE BIRKNER
 Apr 18, 2008
The Pathseeker 
by Imre Kertész
The Poet After Auschwitz
by SAM MUNSON
 Apr 16, 2008
The Hitler Salute 
by Tilman Allert
All Hailed: The Meaning of the Hitler Salute
by RICHARD J. EVANS
 Apr 16, 2008
American Earth  Nature's Keepers
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 16, 2008
Shakespeare's Wife 
by Germaine Greer
Reviving Ann Hathaway
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 16, 2008
The White King 
by György Dragomán
Fiction of the Post-Communist Era
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 16, 2008
Castles, Battles, and Bombs 
by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll
Economics By Other Means
by GRAEME WOOD
 Apr 16, 2008
Gustav Mahler: A New Life Cut Short, 1907–1911 
by Henry-Louis de La Grange
Mahler's Song of the Earth
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Apr 16, 2008
War and Decision 
by Douglas Feith
Why We Fought
by ELI LAKE
 Apr 15, 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War 
by Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Tabulating the Price of War
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Apr 15, 2008
Autobiography of a Wardrobe 
by Elizabeth Kendall
Clothes That Speak a Volume
by LAURA JACOBS
 Apr 15, 2008
The Runner 
by David Samuels
Princeton's Flim-Flam Man
by WESLEY YANG
 Apr 14, 2008
Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath 
by Michael Paul Mason
Descendants of Phineas Gage
by CASEY SCHWARTZ
 Apr 11, 2008
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments 
by George Johnson
When Science Was Young
by JEREMY AXELROD
 Apr 11, 2008
Why Spy? 
by Frederick Hitz
Spy Vs. CIA
by MICHAEL LEDEEN
 Apr 10, 2008
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 
by Walter A. McDougall
America's Century Of Self-Discovery
by DANIEL WALKER HOWE
 Apr 9, 2008
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 
by Richard Hofstadter
The Age of American Unreason
by PAUL GOTTFRIED
 Apr 9, 2008
All Souls 
by Christine Schutt
School Ties
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 9, 2008
Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius 
by Detlev Claussen
The Stern German
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 9, 2008
Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature 
by Marcus du Sautoy
Looking Into the Mirror of Nature
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 9, 2008
All the Sad Young Literary Men 
by Keith Gessen
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
by HUA HSU
 Apr 4, 2008
Unaccustomed Earth 
by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Darjeeling Unlimited
by STEFAN BECK
 Apr 3, 2008
Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations 
by Jayne Cohen
Passover Pages
by JULIE WIENER
 Apr 2, 2008
Dictation: A Quartet 
by Cynthia Ozick
Rethinking What Henry James Knew
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 2, 2008
The Gnostic Gospels 
by Elaine Pagels
The Gospel According To Pagels
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Apr 2, 2008
A History of Histories 
by John Burrow
Those Who Do Know the Past
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 2, 2008
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work 
by Nick Taylor
The Shock Doctrine
by AMITY SHLAES
 Apr 2, 2008
The Last Day 
by Nicholas Shrady
The Day the Middle Ages Died
by SIMON WINCHESTER
 Apr 2, 2008
Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited 
by Arthur Schwartz
Passover Pages
by JULIE WIENER
 Apr 2, 2008
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street 
by Charles Nicholl
Shakespeare in Court
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 2, 2008
The Magical Chorus 
by Solomon Volkov
Russia's Century-Long Culture Crisis
by MARTHA MERCER
 Apr 1, 2008
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order 
by Parag Khanna
The Priggish View of History
by ANDREI CHERNY
 Mar 31, 2008
Reclaiming Conservatism 
by Mickey Edwards
Looking Back in Anger, & Forward in Revenge
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Mar 27, 2008
The Affluent Society 
by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Age of Abundance
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Mar 26, 2008
The Second Plane 
by Martin Amis
The Writing Man's Burden
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 26, 2008
Poems, Prose and Letters 
by Elizabeth Bishop
Lines Like Old Friends
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 26, 2008
Knowledge of Hell 
by António Lobo Antunes
Madness and Civilization
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 26, 2008
Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769–1799 
by Philip Dwyer
The Little Man Who Started These Great Wars
by JOHN MERRIMAN
 Mar 26, 2008
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism 
by Alfred Regnery
A New Kind of Right
by JAMES BOWMAN
 Mar 25, 2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America 
by David Hadju
The Secret History of Comic Books
by WILL FRIEDWALD
 Mar 24, 2008
Dreams and Shadows 
by Robin Wright
The Fertile Crescent
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Mar 21, 2008
Fatal Misconception 
by Matthew Connelly
Birth Control
by REIHAN SALAM
 Mar 19, 2008
The Dark Tide 
by Andrew Gross
Page Churner
by OTTO PENZLER
 Mar 19, 2008
Old War 
by Alan Shapiro
Counting One's Blessings, And Misfortunes
by JAMES MARCUS
 Mar 19, 2008
The Library at Night 
by Alberto Manguel
Logic of the Labyrinth
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 19, 2008
The View From the Seventh Layer 
by Kevin Brockmeier
The View From Iowa City
by SAM MUNSON
 Mar 19, 2008
Worlds at War 
by Anthony Pagden
A Convergence Of Civilizations
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 19, 2008
The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen 
by Tsutomu Mizukami
A Master Builder
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 19, 2008
Lush Life 
by Richard Price
Pulp Sociology
by BENJAMIN WALLACE-WELLS
 Mar 14, 2008
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation 
by David Edwards
'Art Science' Comes Alive at Eyebeam
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 Mar 13, 2008
Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror 
by Eileen Reeves
The Starry Messenger
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 12, 2008
The Painter of Battles 
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Tiresome Treatise
by OTTO PENZLER
 Mar 12, 2008
The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories  A Human History Of Nazi Occupation
by RICHARD J. EVANS
 Mar 12, 2008
Human Smoke 
by Nicholson Baker
War Games
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 12, 2008
The Rain Before It Falls 
by Jonathan Coe
The Basement Tapes
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 12, 2008
Embryo 
by Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen
The Meaning of Life
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Mar 10, 2008
Prose, Volume III: 1949–1955 
by W.H. Auden
Auden & America
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 5, 2008
World Made by Hand 
by James Howard Kunstler
Heralding The End Times
by REIHAN SALAM
 Mar 5, 2008
Killer Year  Young Blood
by OTTO PENZLER
 Mar 5, 2008
Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes 
by Vickie Smith
Pressure Cooker Poised for a Comeback
by JULIE WIENER
 Mar 5, 2008
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad 
by John Stape
Searching For Joseph Conrad
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 5, 2008
Children's World 
by Catriona Kelly
Children Of the Revolution
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Mar 5, 2008
Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 
by James Stourton
Cleaning Up at the Art Market
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Mar 4, 2008
Storm and Conquest 
by Stephen Taylor
Offland Empire
by MATTHEW PRICE
 Mar 4, 2008
Troublemaker 
by Chester E. (Jr.) Finn
Schoolyard Scrapper
by ELIZABETH GREEN
 Mar 4, 2008
Liberty of Conscience 
by Martha Nussbaum
Freedom For Religion
by RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS
 Feb 27, 2008
Luck and the Irish 
by R.F. Foster
Cuddling Up With the Celtic Tiger
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 27, 2008
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 23 Questions From Great Philosophers 
by Leszek Kolakowski
How Plato Can Change Your Life
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 27, 2008
Nazi Literature in the Americas 
by Roberto Bolaño
Getting to the Bottom of Bolaño
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 27, 2008
What the Gospels Meant 
by Garry Wills
The Gospel Truths
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Feb 27, 2008
Lamentations of Youth 
by Gershom Scholem
Mysticism in Youth
by BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON
 Feb 26, 2008
The Life of the Skies 
by Jonathan Rosen
A Republic of Feathers
by HUA HSU
 Feb 25, 2008
Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold on to Their Money 
by Stuart Vyse
Two Emerging Demographics in America
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 Feb 22, 2008
The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America 
by Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff
Two Emerging Demographics in America
by V.L. HENDRICKSON
 Feb 22, 2008
The Great Awakening 
by Jim Wallis
Finding Democrats In the Pews
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 21, 2008
The Party Faithful 
by Amy Sullivan
Finding Democrats In the Pews
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 21, 2008
Seven Notebooks 
by Campbell McGrath
A Year of Living Poetically
by LOUISA THOMAS
 Feb 20, 2008
Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History 
by Ross Hamilton
Chance Is What We Make It
by SIMON BLACKBURN
 Feb 20, 2008
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories 
by Gregor von Rezzori
Citizen Of a Lost World
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 20, 2008
Setting the Desert on Fire 
by James Barr
Arabian Knights
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 20, 2008
Judas Horse 
by April Smith
No Horsing Around
by OTTO PENZLER
 Feb 20, 2008
The Parson's Widow 
by Marja-Liisa Vartio
A Finnish Endgame
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 20, 2008
The Sexual Paradox 
by Susan Pinker
Gender Gap Science
by CASEY SCHWARTZ
 Feb 20, 2008
Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan & America's Coming of Age as a Superpower 
by Nicolaus Mills
The Man With the Plan
by GREG BEHRMAN
 Feb 13, 2008
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory 
by Randall Collins
Why We Fight
by GRAEME WOOD
 Feb 13, 2008
The Collected Prose of Robert Frost 
by Robert Frost
A Piece of Ice On a Hot Stove
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 13, 2008
The One-Strand River 
by Richard Kenney
Love Songs in the Belfry of the Pelvis
by LOUISA THOMAS
 Feb 13, 2008
Dangerous Laughter 
by Steven Millhauser
Returning to a Safe Place
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 13, 2008
Artists in Exile 
by Joseph Horowitz
Brave New World
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 13, 2008
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob 
by Lee Siegel
Standing Athwart E-History
by CHRISTINE ROSEN
 Feb 12, 2008
Selected Poems 
by Robert Creeley
In the Land Of the Blind
by ALEX CARNEVALE
 Feb 7, 2008
Fanon 
by John Edgar Wideman
Song Of Myself
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 6, 2008
The Senator's Wife 
by Sue Miller
In the Private Quarters
by DAPHNE MERKIN
 Feb 6, 2008
A Baker's Odyssey: Celebrating Time-Honored Recipes From America's Rich Immigrant Heritage 
by Greg Patent
Around the World In 130 Recipes
by JULIE WIENER
 Feb 6, 2008
After Tamerlane 
by John Darwin
The Imperial Appetite
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 6, 2008
The Mighty Wurlitzer 
by Hugh Wilford
The God That Won
by RONALD RADOSH
 Feb 6, 2008
My Emily Dickinson 
by Susan Howe
Our Emily Dickinson
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 6, 2008
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq 
by Michel Scheuer
After Iraq
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 5, 2008
The Devil's Footprints 
by John Burnside
Running With the Devil
by MIKE PEED
 Feb 4, 2008
Lynching Photographs 
by Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith
After the Lynch Mob
by EDWARD J. BLUM
 Jan 30, 2008
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous 
by George Poinar and Roberta Poinar
Playing Guessing Games With Pre-History
by PETER D. WARD
 Jan 30, 2008
His Illegal Self 
by Peter Carey
Children of the '60s
by GILES HARVEY
 Jan 30, 2008
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology 
by Jim Endersby
Looking Through the Other End of the Microscope
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 30, 2008
Morning and Evening Talk 
by Naguib Mahfouz
Reading 'Lolita' in Cairo
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 30, 2008
The Bloody Shirt 
by Stephen Budiansky
After Appomattox
by DAVID W. BLIGHT
 Jan 30, 2008
A Person of Interest 
by Susan Choi
Under Suspicion
by HUA HSU
 Jan 30, 2008
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse 
by Richard Thompson Ford
Crying Wolf Over Race
by JOHN McWHORTER
 Jan 30, 2008
God's Crucible 
by David Levering Lewis
When Civilizations Clashed
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 30, 2008
The Deportees and Other Stories 
by Roddy Doyle
Ireland Is Another Country
by MIKE PEED
 Jan 29, 2008
Alfred Kazin: A Biography 
by Richard M. Cook
Native Son
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 23, 2008
Against Happiness 
by Eric G. Wilson
Ain't No Blues Like My Blues
by AMY BLOOM
 Jan 23, 2008
Matala 
by Craig Holden
A Mystery Medley
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jan 23, 2008
Hotel: An American History 
by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
Homes Away From Home
by GARY ALAN FINE
 Jan 23, 2008
Washington Irving: An American Original 
by Brian Jay Jones
A Man of Mischief (And Letters)
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 23, 2008
Detective Story 
by Imre Kertész
Eichmann in Budapest
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 23, 2008
Life Class 
by Pat Barker
Youth Without Youth
by JEROME WEEKS
 Jan 23, 2008
Riding Toward Everywhere 
by William T. Vollman
Down and Out in Tulsa and Reno
by WESLEY YANG
 Jan 16, 2008
People of the Book 
by Geraldine Brooks
700 Years In the Life Of a Book
by CLARE McHUGH
 Jan 16, 2008
My Revolutions 
by Hari Kunzru
A Second Act for Radicals
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 16, 2008
Experiments in Ethics 
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Putting Practice Into Ethics
by PETER SINGER
 Jan 16, 2008
An Ordinary Spy 
by Joseph Weisberg
Spies Like Us
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Jan 16, 2008
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents 
by James Simpson
Words of Hot Effect
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 16, 2008
Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis 
by George Makari
Freud and Us
by THEODORE DALRYMPLE
 Jan 16, 2008
My Unwritten Books 
by George Steiner
Things Better Left Unsaid
by NOAH ISENBERG
 Jan 16, 2008
The Modern Element 
by Adam Kirsch
Poets of Modern Life
by SAM MUNSON
 Jan 15, 2008
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership 
by Madeleine Albright
Madame Secretary Plays the Consigliere
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Jan 10, 2008
Day 
by A.L. Kennedy
Watching Day Break
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 9, 2008
Aeneid  The Music of Fatality
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 9, 2008
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets 
by Sudhir Venkatesh
A Dealer in the Ivory Tower
by TYLER COWEN
 Jan 9, 2008
Homecoming 
by Bernard Schlink
The Emigrant
by HUA HSU
 Jan 9, 2008
This Republic of Suffering 
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Among The Dead
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 9, 2008
Yalo 
by Elias Khoury
Fiction by Allusion
by SAM MUNSON
 Jan 9, 2008
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy 
by Bill Hayes
Under the Skin
by RUTH GRAHAM
 Jan 9, 2008
The Art of Small Things 
by John Mack
In a Grain of Sand
by JEREMY AXELROD
 Jan 9, 2008
Home School 
by Charles Webb
Post-'Graduate' Life
by STEFAN BECK
 Jan 8, 2008
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning 
by Jonah Goldberg
America's 'Fascist Moment'
by RON RADOSH
 Jan 4, 2008
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War 
by Virginia Nicholson
The Found Generation
by DEBORAH COHEN
 Jan 2, 2008
Veganomicon 
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
A Parsnip in Every Pot
by JULIE WIENER
 Jan 2, 2008
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal 
by Randall Kennedy
Black-on-Black Thought Crime
by JOHN McWHORTER
 Jan 2, 2008
The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without 
by Mollie Katzen
A Parsnip in Every Pot
by JULIE WIENER
 Jan 2, 2008
The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France 
by Simon Kitson
Spy Vs. Spy
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Jan 2, 2008
A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text 
by James Agee
The Problem With Originalism
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 2, 2008
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? 
by James Sheehan
Heralding the End of War
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 2, 2008
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild 
by Craig Childs
Across the Species Divide
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 2, 2008
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian 
by Mark Bittman
A Parsnip in Every Pot
by JULIE WIENER
 Jan 2, 2008
Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again 
by David Frum
Changing Course
by ELI LAKE
 Dec 28, 2007
A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe 
by Geoffrey Hartman
Praising Not the Hedgehog but the Fox
by MORRIS DICKSTEIN
 Dec 26, 2007
Invitation to Terror 
by Frank Furedi
Fear and Trembling
by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
 Dec 26, 2007
Swimming in a Sea of Death 
by David Rieff
Regarding the Pain of Others
by JAMES MARCUS
 Dec 26, 2007
Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel 
by Ruth Bernard Yeazell
A Genealogy of Realism
by JAMES GARDNER
 Dec 26, 2007
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began 
by Jack Repcheck
A Map of the Heavens
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Dec 26, 2007
Vermeer's Hat 
by Timothy Brook
A History of Global Trade
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 26, 2007
Bad Samaritans 
by Ha-Joon Chang
Those Who Do Not Know the Past
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Dec 26, 2007
Wolves of the Crescent Moon 
by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
The First Great Saudi Novel
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 26, 2007
Soul and Other Stories 
by Andrey Platonov
Romancing The Locomotive
by ELIF BATUMAN
 Dec 26, 2007
Letters of Ted Hughes  Autobiography of a Mythic Life
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Dec 19, 2007
Ambition and Survival 
by Christian Wiman
Books on Writing
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 19, 2007
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories  Father of History, Made New
by ROBERT ASAHINA
 Dec 19, 2007
What Is Sport? 
by Roland Barthes
The Sporting Life
by TAYT HARLIN
 Dec 19, 2007
Out Stealing Horses 
by Per Petterson
Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 19, 2007
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute 
by Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop
The Long and Winding Road
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 19, 2007
Missing Soluch 
by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 19, 2007
30,000 Years of Art  Paging Through Art History
by PIA CATTON
 Dec 19, 2007
Fetch 
by Tamar Yoseloff
Poetry
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Dec 19, 2007
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 
by Piers Brendon
The Face of Empire
by PAUL KENNEDY
 Dec 19, 2007
Matters of Honor 
by Louis Begley
Books on Writing
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 19, 2007
The Kept Man 
by Jami Attenberg
While You Were Sleeping
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Dec 18, 2007
Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism 
by Felicity D. Scott
The Skyline as Architectural History
by JAMES GARDNER
 Dec 17, 2007
Travels With Van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections 
by Lin Arison
Master-Strokes Across the Ages
by CHARLOTTE COWLES
 Dec 17, 2007
Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam  The Wrong Analogy
by MARK MOYAR
 Dec 13, 2007
Mirage 
by Nina Burleigh
The Discovery Of Egypt
by MATTHEW PRICE
 Dec 12, 2007
Aromas of Aleppo 
by Poopa Dweck
Culinary Page-Turners
by PETER HELLMAN
 Dec 12, 2007
The Seventh Well 
by Fred Wander
Life is Beautiful
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 12, 2007
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin 
by Nicholas Ostler
Not the Roman, but the Latin Empire
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Dec 12, 2007
Veganomicon 
by Terry Hope Romero and Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Culinary Page-Turners
by PETER HELLMAN
 Dec 12, 2007
Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults 
by Jerome Neu
When You Can't Say Something Nice...
by JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE
 Dec 12, 2007
The Odes of Horace in Latin and English  Odes to Longing, And to Change
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Dec 12, 2007
Cooking 
by James Peterson
Culinary Page-Turners
by PETER HELLMAN
 Dec 12, 2007
Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism 
by Ibn Warraq
The Bertrand Russell of Islam
by MICHAEL WEISS
 Dec 12, 2007
Absolution 
by Caro Ramsay
Holiday Reading Treats
by OTTO PENZLER
 Dec 12, 2007
Thinking Politically 
by Michael Walzer
Between Liberalism and Leftism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 12, 2007
The Oxford Companion to Italian Food 
by Gillian Riley
Culinary Page-Turners
by PETER HELLMAN
 Dec 12, 2007
Babies by Design 
by Ronald Green
Parenting in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by CHRISTINE ROSEN
 Dec 12, 2007
Our Secret Discipline 
by Helen Vendler
The Private Language of Form
by SAM MUNSON
 Dec 12, 2007
Diary of a Bad Year 
by J.M. Coetzee
Not a Paltry Thing
by MARCO ROTH
 Dec 12, 2007
The Tenth Muse 
by Judith Jones
Culinary Page-Turners
by PETER HELLMAN
 Dec 12, 2007
Born Standing Up 
by Steve Martin
Just Your Ordinary Banjo Magic Act
by STEFAN BECK
 Dec 11, 2007
Elling 
by Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Surely the Oddest Couple
by MICHAEL SCHULMAN
 Dec 6, 2007
I'm Dreaming of a Chocolate Christmas 
by Marcel Desaulniers
Christmas Comfort Food
by JULIE WIENER
 Dec 5, 2007
I Am Legend 
by Richard Matheson
Oh, the Horror Of It All
by OTTO PENZLER
 Dec 5, 2007
20th Century Ghosts 
by Joe Hill
Oh, the Horror Of It All
by OTTO PENZLER
 Dec 5, 2007
Our World 
by Molly Malone Clark
Dressing Up The Photo Album
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Dec 5, 2007
On Ugliness 
by Umberto Eco
The Human Carnival
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 5, 2007
The Pastry Queen Christmas: Big-Hearted Holiday Entertaining, Texas Style 
by Rebecca Rather
Christmas Comfort Food
by JULIE WIENER
 Dec 5, 2007
Shame in the Blood 
by Tetsuo Miura
Listening to the Voice of Suicide
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 5, 2007
Day of Reckoning 
by Pat Buchanan
The Pulpit Bully
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Dec 4, 2007
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life 
by Elisabeth Bumiller
Right-Hand Woman
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Nov 30, 2007
The Bible: A Biography 
by Karen Armstrong
Studying Those Who Studied the Bible
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Nov 29, 2007
Hatterr 
by G.V. Desani
Passage From India
by HUA HSU
 Nov 29, 2007
The Disinherited 
by Henry Kamen
A Nation In Exile
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 28, 2007
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir 
by Clarence Thomas
A Man Apart
by MICHAEL MEYERS
 Nov 28, 2007
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win 
by Shelby Steele
The Great Hope
by JOHN McWHORTER
 Nov 28, 2007
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story  Sizing Up the Short Story
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 28, 2007
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full 
by Conrad Black
Nixon Summed Up, Magnificently
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Nov 26, 2007
Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin 
by Ivan Bunin
Fiction in Exile
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 23, 2007
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today 
by David A. Andelman
We Are Children of Versailles
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Nov 23, 2007
American Creation 
by Joseph Ellis
Our Founding Fascination
by TRACY LEE SIMMONS
 Nov 23, 2007
The Theatre of Illusion 
by Pierre Corneille
In Defense of Drama
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 23, 2007
Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle 
by Paul Johnson
Varieties of Heroism
by JEFFREY HART
 Nov 23, 2007
The Whisperers 
by Orlando Figes
Life Under A Tyrant's Thumb
by MARTHA MERCER
 Nov 21, 2007
The Voices of the Dead 
by Hiroaki Kuromiya
The Gulag Testimonial
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 21, 2007
Eimi 
by E.E. Cummings
The Coast of Utopia
by SAM MUNSON
 Nov 14, 2007
Today I Wrote Nothing 
by Daniil Kharms
Stop Making Sense
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 14, 2007
God and Gold 
by Russell Mead
What Lies Beneath Our Special Relationship
by WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK
 Nov 14, 2007
OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism  Stop Making Sense
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 14, 2007
American Transcendentalism 
by Philip F. Gura
Band of Outsiders
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 14, 2007
The Bad Wife Handbook 
by Rachel Zucker
Song of Herself
by LOUISA THOMAS
 Nov 14, 2007
Proust Was a Neuroscientist 
by Jonah Lehrer
À La Recherche Du Thé Perdu
by BARBARA PROBST SOLOMON
 Nov 14, 2007
Now and Then 
by Robert B. Parker
Spenser For Hire, Again
by OTTO PENZLER
 Nov 14, 2007
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs  Feeling With the Eye
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 14, 2007
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race 
by Richard Rhodes
Reviving the Great Man Theory
by TIMOTHY NAFTALI
 Nov 13, 2007
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies 
by M. Stanton Evans
Of Witches and Witch Hunts
by RON CAPSHAW
 Nov 8, 2007
Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to 'The Practice': A Collection of Great Writing About the Law  Legal Fiction
by JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
 Nov 8, 2007
A Kind of Testament 
by Witold Gombrowicz
The Art Of Navel-Gazing
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 7, 2007
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved 
by Judith Freeman
The Man Who Gave Us Marlowe
by ALLEN BARRA
 Nov 7, 2007
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - And Why They Fall 
by Amy Chua
Divining Patterns in the Imperial Cycle
by GRAEME WOOD
 Nov 7, 2007
Surrender Is Not an Option 
by John Bolton
The Courage of Conviction
by MICHAEL LEDEEN
 Nov 7, 2007
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu 
by Laurence Bergreen
Seeking the End of the Known World
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 7, 2007
Modernism 
by Peter Gay
The Modernist Impulse
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 7, 2007
Gentlemen of the Road 
by Michael Chabon
More Amazing Adventures
by MIKE PEED
 Nov 7, 2007
Zeroville 
by Steve Erickson
City of Angels
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 7, 2007
Madame Proust 
by Evelyn Bloch-Dano
Like Mother, Like Son
by THOMAS MEANEY
 Nov 7, 2007
Lucian Freud 
by William Feaver
The Picture of Lucian Freud
by JAMES PANERO
 Nov 7, 2007
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics 
by Jonathan Chait
A Shell Game
by JAMES P. LUCIER JR.
 Nov 5, 2007
The Quiet Girl 
by Peter Høeg
The Melancholy Clown
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Nov 2, 2007
All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make - and Spend - Their Fortunes 
by Peter Bernstein and Annalyn Swan
Digging Into the Upper Crust
by RUTH GRAHAM
 Nov 2, 2007
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet 
by Daniel Solove
The Web As Knitting Circle
by CHRISTINE ROSEN
 Nov 1, 2007
The Almost Moon 
by Alice Sebold
Almost a Fine Novelist
by ROBERT WINDER
 Nov 1, 2007
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters  The Mitford Myth
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 31, 2007
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories  Father of History
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Oct 31, 2007
Due Considerations 
by John Updike
Head of the Class
by SAM MUNSON
 Oct 31, 2007
My Last Supper 
by Melanie Dunea
Chefs' Last Suppers
by JENNIFER LEUZZI
 Oct 31, 2007
Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey 
by James McCourt
Notes on Camp
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 31, 2007
Bust 
by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Sharing Credit, And Blame
by OTTO PENZLER
 Oct 31, 2007
Foreigners 
by Caryl Phillips
Invisible Men
by JEROME WEEKS
 Oct 31, 2007
Slide 
by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Sharing Credit, And Blame
by OTTO PENZLER
 Oct 31, 2007
On the Edge: Collected Long Poems 
by Kenneth Koch
Catching Chickens As They Hatch
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 31, 2007
A Free Life 
by Ha Jin
The Past Is Another Country
by HUA HSU
 Oct 31, 2007
Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 
by John Richardson
Sketching A Portrait Of Picasso
by JAMES PANERO
 Oct 31, 2007
Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House 
by Valerie Plame
Former Spy's Memoir Contains a Paradox
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Oct 25, 2007
Growth of the Soil 
by Knut Hamsun
A Norwegian Dostoyevsky, Gone to Seed
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Oct 25, 2007
The Last Great Fight 
by Joe Layden
The Bittersweet Science
by ALLEN BARRA
 Oct 25, 2007
Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King 
by Foster Hirsch
Wunderkind In Wonderland
by EHRHARD BAHR
 Oct 24, 2007
The Slave Ship: A Human History 
by Marcus Rediker
Life in the Hold
by MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL
 Oct 24, 2007
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship 
by Martin Gilbert
Soldier to the Cause
by DAPHNE MERKIN
 Oct 24, 2007
A Division of the Spoils 
by Paul Scott
The Glittering, Insufferable Raj
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 24, 2007
Flying to America: 45 More Stories 
by Donald Barthelme
Barthelme's Overcoat
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 24, 2007
Young Stalin 
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Godfather, Part I: Stalin as a Boy
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Oct 24, 2007
Ghost 
by Alan Lightman
The Paranormalist
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Oct 18, 2007
Like You'd Understand, Anyway 
by Jim Shepard
Enmity & Fraternity
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 18, 2007
The Bad Girl 
by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Pleasure Principle
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 Oct 17, 2007
Ambition and Survival 
by Christian Wiman
The Poet's Ambition
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 17, 2007
The Death of Socrates 
by Emily Wilson
Welcoming a True Trial of Conscience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 17, 2007
The Unforeseen 
by Christian Oster
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 17, 2007
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within 
by Stephen Fry
Writing on the Side, Or on the Sly
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 17, 2007
Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution 
by Pascale Casanova
Standing in the Shadows of Giants
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 17, 2007
War and Peace 
by Leo Tolstoy
A Society Asunder
by ROBERT BELKNAP
 Oct 17, 2007
New York Look Book: A Gallery of Street Fashion 
by Jake Chessum and Amy Larocca
Celebrating Style on the City Streets
by GABRIELLE BIRKNER
 Oct 16, 2007
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England 
by Brock Clarke
Burning Down the House
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Oct 11, 2007
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life 
by Philip Davis
An American, Brooklyn Born
by RUTH FRANKLIN
 Oct 10, 2007
Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s 
by Edmund Wilson
Mensch of Letters
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 10, 2007
The Terror Dream 
by Susan Faludi
The Interpretation Of Dreams
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 10, 2007
Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s 
by Edmund Wilson
Mensch of Letters
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 10, 2007
Kitchen Playdates 
by Lauren Banks Deen
Preschool Gourmet
by JULIE WIENER
 Oct 10, 2007
Journals, 1952–2000 
by Arthur M. (Jr.) Schlesinger
A Wallflower In Full Bloom
by DAVID GREENBERG
 Oct 10, 2007
The Ghost 
by Robert Harris
Peeking Into 10 Downing Street
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Oct 10, 2007
The Gum Thief 
by Douglas Coupland
The Interminable Present
by HUA HSU
 Oct 10, 2007
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan 
by Yasmin Khan
A People's History of Partition
by KARAN MAHAJAN
 Oct 10, 2007
The Conscience of a Liberal 
by Paul Krugman
The World According to Paul Krugman
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Oct 10, 2007
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Verse Translation  An Errand in an Unknown Land
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 10, 2007
Foreskin's Lament 
by Shalom Auslander
Holier Than Thou
by ANDY SELSBERG
 Oct 5, 2007
Black Mass 
by John Gray
Among the False Prophets
by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
 Oct 3, 2007
Lost Genius 
by Kevin Bazzana
The Life of a Prodigal Talent
by EVAN HUGHES
 Oct 3, 2007
Cinema Stories 
by Alexander Kluge
In the Footsteps of Fritz Lang
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 3, 2007
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz 
by Jan T. Gross
Persecution In War and Postwar
by JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY
 Oct 3, 2007
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 
by Naomi Klein
Shock Jock
by TYLER COWEN
 Oct 3, 2007
Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys 
by Morine Krissdóttir
The Glastonbury Romanticist
by PAUL DEAN
 Oct 3, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice 
by Janet Malcolm
In Search of Stein
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 3, 2007
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes 
by Mark Penn
Going Trendspotting
by RUTH GRAHAM
 Oct 3, 2007
Porius 
by Morine Krissdóttir
The Glastonbury Romanticist
by PAUL DEAN
 Oct 3, 2007
Oudry's Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe  The Uncaged Animal
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 3, 2007
Blood and Soil 
by Ben Kiernan
Getting to the Very Roots of Genocide
by GRAEME WOOD
 Oct 3, 2007
Nureyev: The Life 
by Julie Kavanagh
What Made Rudolf Nureyev
by JOEL LOBENTHAL
 Oct 3, 2007
The Night Climbers 
by Ivo Stourton
The Discreet Charm Of the Haute Bourgeoisie
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Oct 2, 2007
Far Afield: A Sportswriting Odyssey 
by S.L. Price
A Sporting Life
by RUSS SMITH
 Oct 1, 2007
The Indian Clerk 
by David Leavitt
The Radiant Child at Work
by MISCHA BERLINSKI
 Oct 1, 2007
The Uncommon Reader 
by Alan Bennett
The Queen Elizabeth Book Club
by MICHAEL SCHULMAN
 Sep 28, 2007
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 
by Oliver Sacks
The Music in Your Head
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Sep 26, 2007
The Coldest Winter 
by David Halberstam
Reckoning With a Forgotten War
by WILLIAM STUECK
 Sep 26, 2007
The Art of Ill Will 
by Donald Dewey
Fighting Words (And Pictures)
by HUA HSU
 Sep 26, 2007
The Rest Is Noise 
by Alex Ross
The Musical Century
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 26, 2007
The Death of Sigmund Freud 
by Mark Edmundson
The Pursuit of Happiness
by GILES HARVEY
 Sep 26, 2007
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture 
by Henry Petrovski
The Secrets of a Naked Piece of Wood
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 26, 2007
Tomorrow 
by Graham Swift
Bedtime Stories
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 26, 2007
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World 
by Bill Clinton
What Clinton Can Teach Us
by GREG BEHRMAN
 Sep 26, 2007
The Farther Shore 
by Matthew Eck
A New Kind of Battle
by MICHELLE ORANGE
 Sep 26, 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 
by Jeffrey Toobin
Justice on the Couch
by ANN ALTHOUSE
 Sep 24, 2007
Gentlemen 
by Klas Östergren
The Question of Sweden
by KATHERINE MARINO
 Sep 20, 2007
The Air We Breathe 
by Andrea Barrett
This Mountain Lacks Magic
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 Sep 20, 2007
Exit Ghost 
by Nathan Zuckerman
The Dying Animal
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 19, 2007
The Roman Triumph 
by Mary Beard
When Men Were Men, And Parades Truly Parades
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Sep 19, 2007
The Bridge of Sighs 
by Richard Russo
Taking His Act On the Road
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 19, 2007
Death of a Murderer 
by Rupert Thomson
Bedding Down With an Executed Murderer
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Sep 19, 2007
Novels in Three Lines 
by Luc Sante
The Anarchist's Chapbook
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 19, 2007
A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television 
by David Everitt
America's Other 1950s Blacklist
by RON RADOSH
 Sep 19, 2007
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler 
by Robert Gellately
Hearts of Darkness
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Sep 19, 2007
A Secular Age 
by Charles Taylor
The Fate of Christian Culture
by MICHAEL BURLEIGH
 Sep 12, 2007
The Stuff of Thought 
by Steven Pinker
The Edifice of Pinkerism
by SETH LERER
 Sep 12, 2007
The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition 
by Andrea Zanzotto
Rhyming With the Hills
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 12, 2007
Tricks of the Light 
by Vicki Hearne
The Metaphysical Dog
by LOUISA THOMAS
 Sep 12, 2007
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration 
by Jack Goldsmith
Litigating the Good Fight
by JEREMY RABKIN
 Sep 12, 2007
The Stillborn God 
by Mark Lilla
The Age Of Political Theology
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 12, 2007
The Political Teachings of Jesus 
by Tod Lindberg
Rendering Unto Caesar
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Sep 12, 2007
The Headmaster's Dilemma 
by Louis Auchincloss
A Good School
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Sep 12, 2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 
by Junot Díaz
The Epic Yarn of a Dominican Family
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 12, 2007
The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control 
by Abraham H. Foxman
Confronting ‘The Israel Lobby'
by SETH GITELL
 Sep 10, 2007
Hotel de Dream 
by Edmund White
Taking Advantage Of Stephen Crane
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 6, 2007
The Dog of the South 
by Charles Portis
A Sleeping Southern Giant
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Sep 5, 2007
The Human Animal in Western Art and Science 
by Martin Kemp
A History of the Beast in the Mirror
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Sep 5, 2007
Samedi the Deafness 
by Jesse Ball
Menace on the White House Lawn
by JOHN WILLIAMS
 Sep 5, 2007
Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature 
by Tim Flannery
Of Marsupials And Men
by RUTH GRAHAM
 Sep 5, 2007
No Simple Victory 
by Norman Davies
Clash Of Evils
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 5, 2007
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy 
by Richard Kahlenberg
The Battle of the Schools
by ELIZABETH GREEN
 Sep 4, 2007
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism 
by Norman Podhoretz
The Front Lines of Manhattan
by IRA STOLL
 Aug 30, 2007
Security First 
by Amitai Etzioni
Liberty & Security for All?
by JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN
 Aug 29, 2007
Away 
by Amy Bloom
Two Sweeping Novels of America
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 29, 2007
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life 
by Anthony T. Kronman
The Academy on Trial
by WILLIAM CHACE
 Aug 29, 2007
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh 
by Linda Colley
Around the World With Elizabeth Marsh
by MATTHEW PRICE
 Aug 29, 2007
Engleby: A Novel 
by Sebastian Faulks
Me, Myself, and Engleby
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Aug 29, 2007
Tree of Smoke: A Novel 
by Denis Johnson
The War Within
by EVAN HUGHES
 Aug 29, 2007
The River Wife: A Novel 
by Jonis Agee
A Great Deal Of Southern History
by MIKE PEED
 Aug 29, 2007
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 
by John Mearsheimer
Two Professors Fail To Clean Up Their Act
by IRA STOLL
 Aug 29, 2007
The Mathematician's Brain 
by David Ruelle
Inside the Mathematical Mind
by DAVID BERLINSKI
 Aug 29, 2007
Dropped from Heaven 
by Sophie Judah
An Unknown India
by MARGOT KAMINSKI
 Aug 28, 2007
Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words 
by Robert Cawdrey
Some Very Old English
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 22, 2007
The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev 
by Dmitrii Shepilov
The Political Beliefs Of a Soviet Functionary
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Aug 22, 2007
Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor, Medicine and Power in the Third Reich 
by Ulf Schmidt
An Evil Ambition To Cure
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 22, 2007
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself 
by Ann Wroe
Elemental Education
by GILES HARVEY
 Aug 22, 2007
ABC 
by David Plante
Obsessive Characters
by MISCHA BERLINSKI
 Aug 22, 2007
Lenin's Private War 
by Lesley Chamberlain
Lenin's First Purge
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 22, 2007
The Great Man 
by Kate Christensen
All the Artist's Women
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Aug 22, 2007
On the Road: The Original Scroll 
by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac's Long-Distance Sprint
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 22, 2007
Beyond Sleep 
by Willem Frederik Hermans
Victims of Science
by KARAN MAHAJAN
 Aug 17, 2007
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind 
by Bruce Watson
The Saga of Sacco and Vanzetti
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Aug 15, 2007
Toxin: The Cunning of Bacterial Poisons 
by Alistair J. Lax
Our Most Intimate Adversaries
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 15, 2007
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America 
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Putting Amerigo on the Map
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 15, 2007
Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich 
by Robert Frank
In the Land Of Mammon
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Aug 15, 2007
The Cleft: A Novel 
by Doris Lessing
An Indent for the Ages
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Aug 15, 2007
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 
by J. M. Coetzee
Arts+ Selects
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 15, 2007
Sonnets 
by Mike Stock
The Poetic Gutter Slang of Rome
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 8, 2007
Before 
by Irini Spanidou
Down & Out in 1970s New York
by ZACHARY WOOLFE
 Aug 8, 2007
The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe 
by Greg Behrman
Lifting Up a Continent
by AMITY SHLAES
 Aug 8, 2007
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright Into the Bard 
by Jack Lynch
A Life After Life For Shakespeare
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 8, 2007
In Her Absence 
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Scenes From a Marriage
by NICK ANTOSCA
 Aug 8, 2007
The First Word 
by Christine Kenneally
Language Of the Apes
by SETH LERER
 Aug 8, 2007
Song Without Words 
by Leah Bendavid-Val
The Fanatical Gaze of Tolstoy
by SAM MUNSON
 Aug 8, 2007
The Blair Years 
by Alastair Campbell
High-Class Political Gossip
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Aug 3, 2007
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century 
by Geert Mak
Crisscrossing the Continent With Geert Mak
by JULES TRENEER
 Aug 3, 2007
Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea 
by Richard Kluger
The Making Of Manifest Destiny
by PATRICK GRIFFIN
 Aug 1, 2007
Selected Correspondence of Charles Ives 
by Tom Owens
New England's Joyous Composer
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Aug 1, 2007
C. Day-Lewis: A Life 
by Peter Stanford
Near the Magnetic Mountain
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 1, 2007
E.O. Hoppé's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920s  The Outsider's Vantage
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 1, 2007
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari 
by Pat Shipman
The Scapegoat Femme Fatale
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 1, 2007
The Rake 
by William F. (Jr.) Buckley
Buckley's Novel of Disillusion
by JOSEPH RAGO
 Aug 1, 2007
The Great Kisser 
by David Evanier
The Best And Worst Of Youth
by DAVID TWERSKY
 Jul 26, 2007
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life 
by Mark Francis
The Gospel of Relaxation
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 25, 2007
The Complete Stories 
by David Malouf
David Malouf's Australia
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 25, 2007
Stèles 
by Victor Segalen
A Man of Characters
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Jul 25, 2007
Mr. Pip 
by Lloyd Jones
The Man Who Loved Dickens
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 Jul 25, 2007
The Pirate Queen 
by Susan Ronald
The Queen of Homeland Security
by MATTHEW PRICE
 Jul 25, 2007
Fire and Knowledge 
by Péter Nádas
The Homecoming Of Péter Nádas
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 25, 2007
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President 
by Stephen Hayes
Cheney's Chance
by IRA STOLL
 Jul 24, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter's Grand Finale
by ERICA GRIEDER
 Jul 23, 2007
Ciceronian Controversies  The Golden Age of Prose
by JAMES GARDNER
 Jul 19, 2007
From Stroganoff to Strudel 
by Lesley Chamberlain
Between Emotion & Reason
by RICHARD PIPES
 Jul 18, 2007
Rites of Peace 
by Adam Zamoyski
The Old World Order
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 18, 2007
LeMay: A Biography 
by Barrett Tillman
Curtis LeMay: Bombing To Win
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 18, 2007
Christianity and American Democracy 
by Hugh Heclo
The Secular DNA of American Politics
by DAMON LINKER
 Jul 18, 2007
Karnak Café 
by Naguib Mahfouz
Mahfouz Illuminates Hidden Horrors
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 18, 2007
Shadow of the Silk Road 
by Colin Thubron
The Long and Winding Silk Road
by TIMOTHY FARRINGTON
 Jul 18, 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Mysterious Ending
by ERICA GRIEDER
 Jul 17, 2007
Where Europe Begins 
by Yoko Tawada
Tawada's Cute Superstitions
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 13, 2007
The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent 
by Walter Laqueur
The Dawn of Islamic Europe
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Jul 13, 2007
Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America 
by Joan Shelley Rubin
The Old World of American Readers
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 12, 2007
Hubbub 
by Emily Cockayne
Stench & the City
by ANDREW STUTAFFORD
 Jul 11, 2007
The Assistant 
by Robert Walser
Visions From Mitteleuropa
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 11, 2007
Age of Lincoln 
by Orville Vernon Burton
With God On Our Side
by JUSTIN REYNOLDS
 Jul 11, 2007
New England White 
by Stephen Carter
The Darker Nation Inside New England
by JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE
 Jul 11, 2007
Vegetable Harvest 
by Patricia Wells
Healthy Eating, Revitalized
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jul 11, 2007
The Pentagon 
by Steve Vogel
The Five Sides of Defense
by MARK FALCOFF
 Jul 11, 2007
Super Natural Cooking 
by Heidi Swanson
Healthy Eating, Revitalized
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jul 11, 2007
Française 
by Jean-Paul Dubois
An Armchair Nihilist
by JULES TRENEER
 Jul 11, 2007
TheLost Life of Eva Braun 
by Angela Lambert
Nazi Germany's First Mistress
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 11, 2007
Inner Workings 
by J.M. Coetzee
The Coldest Critic
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 11, 2007
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos 
by Peter Handke
Visions From Mitteleuropa
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 11, 2007
The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the ‘History'  An Optimist Without Illusions
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jul 11, 2007
Faust in Copenhagen 
by Gino Segrè
The Overestimation of Niels Bohr
by JOHN S. RIGDEN
 Jul 11, 2007
The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty 
by Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed's Musical House of Cards
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Jul 10, 2007
Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television 
by Lee Siegel
Watching Television Come of Age
by BRENDAN BERNHARD
 Jul 6, 2007
Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat 
by Sol Gittleman
Triple Dose of Yankee Lit
by ALLEN BARRA
 Jul 6, 2007
The Voice 
by Curt Smith
Triple Dose of Yankee Lit
by ALLEN BARRA
 Jul 6, 2007
The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs 
by Bill Jenkinson
Triple Dose of Yankee Lit
by ALLEN BARRA
 Jul 6, 2007
La Nilsson: My Life in Opera 
by Doris Jung Popper
An Outsize Operatic Life
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Jul 2, 2007
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 
by Lucette Lagnado
Journey Back to Old Cairo
by ALBERT FAYNGOLD
 Jul 2, 2007
Last One In 
by Nicholas Kulish
Gossip From The Front Lines
by LIZZIE WIDDICOMBE
 Jun 29, 2007
Landsman 
by Peter Charles Melman
A Confederacy of Romantics
by DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
 Jun 27, 2007
My Holocaust 
by Tova Reich
The H-Word
by KARAN MAHAJAN
 Jun 27, 2007
Harriet Tubman 
by Beverly Lowry
Harriet Tubman: Freelancer for Justice
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 27, 2007
Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora 
by John Dent-Young
The Spanish Solitudes of Góngora
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 27, 2007
Comrades! 
by Robert Service
The Dissemination of an Illusion
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Jun 27, 2007
David Golder 
by Irène Némirovsky
L'Affaire Némirovsky
by BENITA EISLER
 Jun 27, 2007
The Bestiary 
by Nicholas Christopher
Where the Wild Things Are
by NED VIZZINI
 Jun 27, 2007
The Conscience of a Conservative 
by Barry Goldwater
A Conservative Before His Time
by ANGUS BURGIN
 Jun 27, 2007
Leviathan 
by Eric Jay Dolin
A Whale of a Tale
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 27, 2007
Reading Judas 
by Karen King
The Argument of Judas
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Jun 27, 2007
Nature's Engraver 
by William Hogarth
England's Original Woodlander
by MATTHEW PRICE
 Jun 20, 2007
Out Stealing Horses, 
by Per Petterson
Through a Glass Darkly
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jun 20, 2007
The Lost World of James Smithson 
by Heather Ewing
The Man Behind the Museum
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 20, 2007
A Natural History of Time 
by Pascal Richet
Dating the Earth
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 20, 2007
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours 
by Noga Arikha
A Fruitful Mistake
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 20, 2007
The Shadow Catcher 
by Marianne Wiggins
The Chastity Of High Art
by MIKE PEED
 Jun 20, 2007
Uncommon Arrangements 
by Katie Roiphe
The More Deceived
by BROOKE ALLEN
 Jun 20, 2007
Off the Record 
by Norman Pearlstine
Pearlstine's Estimate
by SETH LIPSKY
 Jun 19, 2007
The Last Mrs. Astor 
by Frances Kiernan
As Mrs. Astor Grows Older
by AMANDA GORDON
 Jun 18, 2007
The Fabric of America 
by Andro Linklater
The Land Was Ours Before We Were the Land's
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jun 15, 2007
North River 
by Pete Hamill
The Good Doctor
by NATHAN WARD
 Jun 13, 2007
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Great Black Filmmaker 
by Patrick McGilligan
Body & Soul
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 13, 2007
The Forgotten Man 
by Amity Shlaes
The End of the New Deal
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Jun 13, 2007
The Dangerous Book for Boys 
by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden
Close Cover Before Striking
by STEFAN BECK
 Jun 13, 2007
My Father's House: A Childhood in Wartime Bavaria 
by Beatrix Ost
In Search of Lost Bavaria
by ALBERT FAYNGOLD
 Jun 13, 2007
Peeling the Onion 
by Günter Grass
Shedding Memory
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 13, 2007
The Sea Lady 
by Margaret Drabble
A Matter Of Chance
by CHARLES PETERSEN
 Jun 13, 2007
A Woman in Charge 
by Carl Bernstein
Missing the Hillary Turn
by FRED SIEGEL
 Jun 11, 2007
The Diana Chronicles 
by Tina Brown
Tina Brown's 'Diana' — A Royal Feast
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Jun 8, 2007
Attendant Cruelties 
by Patrice Higonnet
A Degradation of the Intellect
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 6, 2007
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years 
by Wayne Franklin
The First of the Americans
by WILLIAM KELLY
 Jun 6, 2007
The Idea That Is America 
by Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Audacity of Hope for High Office
by JEREMY RABKIN
 Jun 6, 2007
Shoot the Widow 
by Meryle Secrest
Grim Tales of a ‘Biografiend'
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 6, 2007
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS 
by Helen Epstein
The Idea War Against African AIDS
by JAMES KIRCHICK
 Jun 6, 2007
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America 
by Andrew Ferguson
The Hallowed Ground of Lincoln(s)
by RUTH GRAHAM
 Jun 6, 2007
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil 
by John Ghazvinian
The Dutch Disease in Africa
by MICHELLE SIEFF
 Jun 6, 2007
On Chesil Beach 
by Ian McEwan
No Sex, Please, We're British
by DAPHNE MERKIN
 May 30, 2007
Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Frémont, The Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America 
by Sally Denton
The Power Couple of the West
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 30, 2007
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero 
by Lucy Riall
The Great Man of Italy
by LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
 May 30, 2007
Be Near Me  A Confessor's Confession
by CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
 May 30, 2007
Travels With Herodotus 
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Father of Mythic Journalism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 30, 2007
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961–89 
by Frederick Taylor
Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 May 30, 2007
The Assault on Reason 
by Al Gore
Reason in an Unreasonable Form
by STEFAN BECK
 May 29, 2007
God on Trial 
by Peter Irons
Ganging Up on God
by ALEC SOLOMITA
 May 24, 2007
Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician 
by John Worthen
Squabbling Over Schumann
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 May 24, 2007
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa  In the Heart of the Country
by JAMES KIRCHICK
 May 23, 2007
Christopher's Ghosts 
by Charles McCarry
The Tears of Ghosts
by OTTO PENZLER
 May 23, 2007
FDR 
by Jean Edward Smith
The Mythic Legacy of Franklin Roosevelt
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 23, 2007
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family 
by Alexander Waugh
Beware Of Seriousness
by TIMOTHY FARRINGTON
 May 23, 2007
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss 
by Claire Nouvian
A New Kettle Of Fish
by ERIC ORMSBY
 May 23, 2007
The Reagan Diaries 
by Ronald Reagan
Reagan Is Elusive in His Diaries
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 May 23, 2007
The Collected Stories 
by Leonard Michaels
Leonard Michaels's Degraded Realism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 23, 2007
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness 
by Sheila Kohler
Out of the Revolution
by CAROL IANNONE
 May 18, 2007
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration 
by Pope Benedict XVI
Papal Corrections
by BRUCE CHILTON
 May 16, 2007
Are We Rome? 
by Cullen Murphy
In the Hour of Our Pride
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 16, 2007
The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy 
by Sasha Issenberg
Sushi Makes the World Go Around
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 May 16, 2007
The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification 
by Caille Millner
Singing America
by REESE KWON
 May 16, 2007
Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties 
by Kenneth Ackerman
Chasing the Reds With Young John Edgar
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 16, 2007
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power 
by Robert Dallek
Nixon & Kissinger: Dealing in Détente
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 May 16, 2007
The Theatre of Illusion 
by Pierre Corneille
Translating Corneille
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 May 16, 2007
The Case Against Perfection 
by Michael Sandel
The Hubris of Genetic Enhancement
by YUVAL LEVIN
 May 16, 2007
God Is Not Great 
by Christopher Hitchens
Sacred Cows Go To Hitchens's Abattoir
by JOSEPH RAGO
 May 11, 2007
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy 
by John Rawls
The Philosopher of Our Times
by STEVEN B. SMITH
 May 11, 2007
At the Center of the Storm 
by George Tenet
Seeking Shelter From the Storm
by JUDITH MILLER
 May 11, 2007
Kalooki Nights 
by Howard Jacobson
Jewish Nights in Manchester
by ZOË STRIMPEL
 May 11, 2007
Bound Together 
by Nayan Chanda
The Rise Of Global History
by GAURAV TIWARI
 May 9, 2007
The Law of God 
by Remi Brague
Divine Law and History: Remi Brague
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 9, 2007
A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals With Ingredients From Jars, Cans, Bags, and Boxes 
by Nancy Silverton
Chef in a Can
by ADINA STEIMAN
 May 9, 2007
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr 
by Nancy Isenberg
The New Aaron Burr
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 9, 2007
The Clarks of Cooperstown 
by Nicholas Fox Weber
You Say Renoir, I Say Cézanne
by MICHAEL LEWIS
 May 9, 2007
The Life of Kingsley Amis 
by Zachary Leader
Battalions of Women, Rivers of Drink
by SAM MUNSON
 May 2, 2007
The Perfect Summer 
by Juliet Nicolson
England's Arcadia
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 May 2, 2007
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton 
by Sara Wheeler
Back Into Africa
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 2, 2007
God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis 
by Philip Jenkins
Continent in Crisis
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 May 2, 2007
Love and War in California 
by Oakley Hall
A Californian Bildungsroman
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 2, 2007
Falling Man 
by Don DeLillo
DeLillo Confronts September 11
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 2, 2007
The Gentle Axe 
by R.N. Morris
‘Crime & Punishment' Gets Another Day
by MIKE PEED
 May 2, 2007
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life 
by Sari Nusseibeh
A Palestinian Two-Step
by EFRAIM KARSH
 May 2, 2007
The Sirens of Baghdad 
by Yasmina Khadra
Riddles of Nostalgia In Two Iraq Novels
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 25, 2007
Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform 
by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland
Let Them Eat Nothing
by CLAUDIA ROSETT
 Apr 25, 2007
Halflife  Propensity For the Personal
by DAVEY VOLNER
 Apr 25, 2007
Ho Chi Minh 
by Pierre Brocheux
The Many Lives of Ho Chi Minh
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 25, 2007
Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia 
by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
Imperial Lessons In Southeast Asia
by MARK MOYAR
 Apr 25, 2007
Eugene O'Neill's America 
by John Patrick Diggins
A Touch of Eugene O'Neill
by ERIC GRODE
 Apr 25, 2007
Fellow Travelers 
by Thomas Mallon
Conscientious Projections
by CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
 Apr 25, 2007
John Donne: The Reformed Soul 
by John Stubbs
The Priestly Donne
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 25, 2007
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels 
by Jill Jonnes
Tunneling Under
by COLIN MINER
 Apr 24, 2007
Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide 
by Dianne Durante
The Great Monuments of New York
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Apr 20, 2007
American Leviathan 
by Patrick Griffin
The Colonial State of Nature in the West
by JUSTIN REYNOLDS
 Apr 20, 2007
A Life in Letters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  The Giddy Letters Of the Mozart Family
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Apr 20, 2007
The Unknown Gulag 
by Lynne Viola
The Other Archipelago
by MARTHA MERCER
 Apr 20, 2007
Cannibal Island 
by Nicolas Werth
The Other Archipelago
by MARTHA MERCER
 Apr 20, 2007
The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made 
by Norman Lebrecht
A Scavenger Of Classical Music
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Apr 19, 2007
George Kennan: A Study of Character 
by John Lukacs
The Sources of George Kennan's Conduct
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 18, 2007
Prophet of Innovation 
by Thomas McCraw
Economist of the Empire
by ANGUS BURGIN
 Apr 18, 2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography 
by Arnold Rampersad
The Visible Ellison
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 18, 2007
Nazi Games 
by David Clay Large
Running the Germans Ragged
by NATHAN WARD
 Apr 18, 2007
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics 
by Jeremy Schaap
Running the Germans Ragged
by NATHAN WARD
 Apr 18, 2007
The Gashouse Gang 
by John Heidenry
Dizzy Days in Baseball History
by ALLEN BARRA
 Apr 18, 2007
True Believer 
by Scott Carmichael
The Spy Who Came In From the Heat
by MARK FALCOFF
 Apr 18, 2007
Opening Day 
by Jonathan Eig
Dizzy Days in Baseball History
by ALLEN BARRA
 Apr 18, 2007
7: The Mickey Mantle Novel 
by Peter Golenbock
All the Ballplayer's Women
by RICHARD J. TOFEL
 Apr 11, 2007
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein 
by Martin Duberman
A Self-Effacing Impresario
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 11, 2007
Troublesome Young Men 
by Lynne Olson
Victory at All Costs
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Apr 11, 2007
Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis 
by Brenda Maddox
The Shabbes-Goy of Psychoanalysis
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 11, 2007
Dark Lady: Winston Churchill's Mother and Her World 
by Charles Higham
Britain's Brooklyn Girl
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Apr 11, 2007
No Retreat, No Surrender 
by Tom DeLay
Bringing Down The House of Reps.
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Apr 10, 2007
Last Harvest 
by Witold Rybczynski
This Must Be the Place
by HENRY PETROSKI
 Apr 4, 2007
A Tranquil Star 
by Primo Levi
Primo Levi's Defiance
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 4, 2007
The Mistress's Daughter 
by A.M. Homes
Stranger Than Routine Adoption
by AMELIA ATLAS
 Apr 4, 2007
The Remarkable Millard Fillmore 
by George Pendle
Giving Millard Fillmore His Due
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 4, 2007
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and the People Who Pay the Price 
by Jonathan Cohn
Pitfalls of Private Health Insurance
by SCOTT GOTTLIEB
 Apr 4, 2007
The Rebels 
by Sándor Márai
The Disintegration Artist
by CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
 Apr 4, 2007
A Far Country 
by Daniel Mason
The Present Is a Vague Country
by KATE TAYLOR
 Apr 2, 2007
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush 
by Joe Conason
The Popular Charm Of Big Government
by JIM GERAGHTY
 Apr 2, 2007
Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution 
by Michael Tanner
The Popular Charm Of Big Government
by JIM GERAGHTY
 Apr 2, 2007
How Doctors Think 
by Jerome Groopman
The Complications of Caring
by CLARE MCHUGH
 Mar 30, 2007
The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being 
by Sherwin Nuland
The Complications of Caring
by CLARE MCHUGH
 Mar 30, 2007
Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist 
by Lois Gordon
A High Priestess of Ideals
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Mar 29, 2007
Mergers & Acquisitions 
by Dana Vachon
You Hated Loving It
by STEFAN BECK
 Mar 29, 2007
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse 
by Thomas McNamee
Chez Alice Waters
by FRED VOLKMER
 Mar 28, 2007
The Future of Europe 
by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi
The Foundering Continent
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Mar 28, 2007
The Decoration of Houses 
by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's Revolution in Taste
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Mar 28, 2007
Edith Wharton 
by Hermione Lee
The Disillusionment Of Edith Wharton
by LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS
 Mar 28, 2007
Alexis de Tocqueville 
by Hugh Brogan
Tocqueville Regained
by DANIEL DONESON
 Mar 28, 2007
Shimon Peres 
by Michael Bar-Zohar
The Cautionary Tale of Shimon Peres
by DAVID HAZONY
 Mar 28, 2007
Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham 
by Carolyn Brown
Extended Moments in Dance
by JOEL LOBENTHAL
 Mar 28, 2007
Without Title 
by Geoffrey Hill
The Long-Cherished Anger of Geoffrey Hill
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 28, 2007
Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero 
by Len Gougeon
Emerson Beyond Intellect
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 28, 2007
My Father's Secret War 
by Lucinda Franks
From a Father's Secret, A Universal Tale
by SETH LIPSKY
 Mar 27, 2007
Boomsday 
by Christopher Buckley
Social Security Bonanza
by ALLEN BARRA
 Mar 26, 2007
Inventing Human Rights: A History 
by Lynn Hunt
The Right To Have Rights
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 26, 2007
J.S. Bach: A Life in Music 
by Peter Williams
The Music of Bach We Didn't Know
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Mar 23, 2007
The Wages of Destruction 
by Adam Tooze
On the Eve Of Destruction
by GERALD FELDMAN
 Mar 23, 2007
Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War  Glamorizing History At City Museum
by RONALD RADOSH
 Mar 22, 2007
Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War 
by Cecil Eby
Glamorizing History At City Museum
by RONALD RADOSH
 Mar 22, 2007
Belva Lockwood 
by Jill Norgren
The Lady of the Court
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 21, 2007
The Jewish Writings 
by Hannah Arendt
Arendt's Conflicted Zionism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 21, 2007
Selected Writings on Aesthetics 
by Johann Gottfried Herder
The Touch of Truth
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 21, 2007
Canaletto in England 
by Charles Beddington
When Canaletto Came to England . . .
by JAMES GARDNER
 Mar 21, 2007
So Many Ways To Begin 
by Jon McGregor
Artifacts of a Decelerated Culture
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 21, 2007
Testimony 
by Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarko's Interior Monologue
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Mar 21, 2007
The Last Mughal 
by William Dalrymple
The End Of an Empire
by ALEX TRAVELLI
 Mar 21, 2007
Burning Bright 
by Tracy Chevalier
Playing William Blake
by AMELIA ATLAS
 Mar 20, 2007
The English National Character 
by Peter Mandler
As English As the English
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 19, 2007
The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President's Life After the White House 
by R. Emmett Tyrrell
Clinton's Next Chapter
by SETH LIPKSY
 Mar 19, 2007
Then We Came to the End 
by Joshua Ferris
Dilbert Agonistes
by STEFAN BECK
 Mar 16, 2007
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World 
by Randall Stross
Riding the Edison Highway
by MIKE PEED
 Mar 14, 2007
Marc Chagall 
by Jonathan Wilson
A Fiddler on the Roof of Modernism
by JAMES PANERO
 Mar 14, 2007
Billy the Kid - The Endless Ride 
by Michael Wallis
The Darling Outlaw Of the Wild West
by ALLEN BARRA
 Mar 14, 2007
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity 
by Gillian Darley
Explore Everything, Keep the Best
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Mar 14, 2007
Cultural Amnesia 
by Clive James
Criticism From A Winner
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 14, 2007
Louis I. Kahn 
by Carter Wiseman
Behind the Intensity Of Louis Kahn
by JAMES GARDNER
 Mar 14, 2007
Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography 
by Daniel Tanguay
A Skeptical Friend of Democracy
by STEVEN B. SMITH
 Mar 14, 2007
Biography: A Brief History 
by Nigel Hamilton
Biography: the Highest Form of Cannibalism?
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 14, 2007
The Friend of Women 
by Louis Auchincloss
Surveying the Auchincloss Scene
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 14, 2007
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher 
by Eugene Sheppard
A Skeptical Friend of Democracy
by STEVEN B. SMITH
 Mar 14, 2007
What A Party! 
by Terry McAuliffe
You're Not Getting A Thing
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Mar 13, 2007
Polish Writers on Writing  Glimpses Into the Polish Sublime
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Mar 12, 2007
Thomas Hardy 
by Claire Tomalin
The Very Rich Hours of Thomas Hardy
by BROOKE ALLEN
 Mar 7, 2007
Leni Riefenstahl: A Life 
by Jürgen Trimborn
Leni Riefenstahl on Trial
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 7, 2007
Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth 
by Sergey Prokofiev
Prokofiev's Joyous Dynamism
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Mar 7, 2007
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl 
by Steven Bach
Leni Riefenstahl on Trial
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 7, 2007
The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City 
by Dore Gold
Temple Denial In the Holy City
by DAVID HAZONY
 Mar 7, 2007
Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks 
by Philip Rieff
Killing Father Freud
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 7, 2007
The Poincaré Conjecture  This Shape We're In
by JOHN DERBYSHIRE
 Mar 7, 2007
The Making of Victorian Values 
by Ben Wilson
The Victorian Reformation
by FRANK TURNER
 Mar 7, 2007
Charisma 
by Philip Rieff
Killing Father Freud
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 7, 2007
Thomas Hardy: A Guarded Life 
by Ralph Pite
The Very Rich Hours of Thomas Hardy
by BROOKE ALLEN
 Mar 7, 2007
By Force of Thought 
by János Kornai
The Internal Contradictions of Hungary
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Mar 7, 2007
Paper Trails 
by Pete Dexter
Literature Under Pressure
by OTTO PENZLER
 Mar 5, 2007
Masters of American Comics 
by Ivan Brunetti
Cartoonish Prestige
by NADIA BERENSTEIN
 Mar 5, 2007
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War 
by Leonard Richards
The Golden Years of America's Rogue State
by HAROLD HOLZER
 Feb 28, 2007
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression 
by James Mann
The Three China Cards
by GORDON G. CHANG
 Feb 28, 2007
One Day a Year 
by Christa Wolf
The Quest for Christa Wolf
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 28, 2007
Heyday 
by Kurt Andersen
An Antebellum Adventure
by ALLEN BARRA
 Feb 28, 2007
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign To End Slavery 
by Eric Metaxas
Faith-Based Liberation
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 28, 2007
A War of Frontier and Empire 
by David Silbey
Remember The Philippines
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 28, 2007
From a Cause to a Style 
by Nathan Glazer
The Modernism That Failed?
by EDWARD GLAESER
 Feb 28, 2007
Don't Tread on Me: A 400-Year History of America at War, From Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting 
by H.W. (III) Crocker
Over There: America's Unsung Heroes
by MARK MOYAR
 Feb 28, 2007
Sacred Causes 
by Michael Burleigh
Twilight of the Ideologies
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 28, 2007
Edward Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life 
by Scott Donaldson
The First American Modernist
by ERNEST HILBERT
 Feb 26, 2007
Poor People 
by William Vollmann
Vollmann's Poor Folk
by PAUL MCLEARY
 Feb 26, 2007
Nixon & Mao: The Week That Changed the World 
by Margaret MacMillan
Negotiation Of the Titans
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 21, 2007
Locke: A Biography 
by Roger Woolhouse
A Man of Property
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 21, 2007
The Man of Feeling 
by Javier Marìas
Voluntary Exile From Reality
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 21, 2007
Infidel 
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Bengal Tiger of Europe
by CLAIRE BERLINSKI
 Feb 21, 2007
How I Became a Nun 
by Cèsar Aira
Voluntary Exile From Reality
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 21, 2007
Selected Poems 
by W.H. Auden
Homage to Auden
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 21, 2007
Shylock Is Shakespeare 
by Kenneth Gross
Curb Your Anti-Semitism
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Feb 21, 2007
Fieldwork 
by Mischa Berlinski
Berlinski the Rain King
by ALEC SOLOMITA
 Feb 21, 2007
The Sweet Life: Desserts From Chanterelle 
by Kate Zuckerman
Le Soufflé Without Le Struggle
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Feb 21, 2007
T. S. Eliot 
by Craig Raine
On the Turning Away
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 21, 2007
Surveillance 
by Jonathan Raban
Airport Pulp for Progressives
by STEFAN BECK
 Feb 16, 2007
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public 
by Sarah Igo
The Great American Survey
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Feb 16, 2007
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art 
by Alexander Nehamas
The Uncertainty Principle of Beauty
by GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS
 Feb 16, 2007
A Worldly Country 
by John Ashbery
The Worldly Epitaphs of John Ashbery
by SAM MUNSON
 Feb 15, 2007
Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie 
by Mark Allan Jackson
Woody Guthrie's Hard Rock
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Feb 14, 2007
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge 
by Adam Sisman
Lyrical Ballads, Difficult Friends
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 14, 2007
Exile and the Kingdom 
by Albert Camus
Camus in Istanbul
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 14, 2007
Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C 
by Scott Berg
L'Enfant and the Pride of the Potomac
by KOLBY YARNELL
 Feb 14, 2007
History of My Life 
by Giacomo Casanova
Love Him Or Leave Him
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 14, 2007
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love 
by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 14, 2007
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present 
by Michael Oren
To the Shores of Tripoli
by JUDITH MILLER
 Feb 14, 2007
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes' Doomed Love 
by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 14, 2007
The Notebooks of Robert Frost 
by Robert Frost
Subterranean Frost
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 12, 2007
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History 
by John Patrick Diggins
Becoming Reagan
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Feb 7, 2007
Knots 
by Nuruddin Farah
Forging Somalia's Conscience
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 7, 2007
Transforming America: Politics And Culture During the Reagan Years 
by Robert M. Collins
Becoming Reagan
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Feb 7, 2007
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions 
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Dürrenmatt's Prison of Paradox
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 7, 2007
Ten Days in the Hills 
by Jane Smiley
A Hollywood Decameron
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 7, 2007
Sweet and Sour Milk 
by Nuruddin Farah
Forging Somalia's Conscience
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Feb 7, 2007
Dead Horse 
by Walter Satterthwait
A Writer's Crimes Of Passion
by OTTO PENZLER
 Feb 7, 2007
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays 
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Dürrenmatt's Prison of Paradox
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 7, 2007
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power 
by Virginia Rounding
How Catherine Became Great
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 7, 2007
Les Bienveillantes 
by Jonathan Littell
Brooklyn Author Shakes Up Paris
by JULES TRENEER
 Feb 7, 2007
Robert Indiana 
by Robert Pincus-Witten and Joachim Pissarro and John Wilmerding
Indiana's Power of Words
by CHANNING JOSEPH
 Feb 7, 2007
The Education of Ronald Reagan 
by Thomas W. Evans
Becoming Reagan
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Feb 7, 2007
Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays 
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Dürrenmatt's Prison of Paradox
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Feb 7, 2007
The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 
by Zbigniew Herbert
The Sparring Poet: Zbigniew Herbert
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Feb 7, 2007
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11  The Wicked West
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Feb 2, 2007
Francis Bacon in the 1950s 
by Michael Peppiatt
Francis Bacon's Ghostly Presence
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Feb 2, 2007
Jejuri 
by Arun Kolatkar
Keeping the Gods in the Dark
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 31, 2007
Ice 
by Vladimir Sorokin
Icy Russian Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 31, 2007
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts 
by Milan Kundera
The Modern Never Gets Old for Kundera
by ALEC SOLOMITA
 Jan 31, 2007
Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir 
by David Grene
A Classicist's Works and Days
by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
 Jan 31, 2007
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature 
by Linda Lear
Potter's Secret Garden
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 31, 2007
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief 
by Lewis Wolpert
Two Ways To Believe
by ALEXANDRA BOWIE
 Jan 31, 2007
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 
by Andrew Roberts
Taking on Churchill's Mantle
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Jan 31, 2007
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen 
by Jeremy Cohen
The Legacy Of Slander
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 31, 2007
Devotion 
by Howard Norman
Swan Business
by ERICA GRIEDER
 Jan 29, 2007
Toussaint Louverture 
by Madison Smartt Bell
Vive la Revolution
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 24, 2007
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement 
by Brian Doherty
Long Love Affairs With Libertarianism
by MICHAEL SHERMER
 Jan 24, 2007
That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present 
by Isabelle Tombs and Robert Tombs
French Twist
by DAVID PRYCE-JONES
 Jan 24, 2007
Butcher's Crossing 
by John Williams
John Williams: Willa Cather's Lonely Western Heir
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 24, 2007
Stoner 
by John Williams
John Williams: Willa Cather's Lonely Western Heir
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 24, 2007
Matters of Honor 
by Louis Begley
About Begley
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 24, 2007
Call Me by Your Name 
by Andre Aciman
Nature Loves To Hide
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 24, 2007
Made To Stick 
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Stickiness and Its Discontents
by JUSTIN REYNOLDS
 Jan 17, 2007
Braise: A Journey Through International Cuisine 
by Daniel Boulud
A Four-Star Guide to One-Pot Cooking
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jan 17, 2007
César Vallejo: The Complete Poetry 
by César Vallejo
The Stones of Peru
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 17, 2007
Love, Life, Goethe 
by John Armstrong
Learning With Goethe
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 17, 2007
Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon 
by Claudia Roden
A Four-Star Guide to One-Pot Cooking
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jan 17, 2007
The Castle in the Forest 
by Norman Mailer
Mailer: Lost in the Forest In Search of Adolf Hitler
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 17, 2007
Amulet 
by Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño's Lost Boys
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 17, 2007
Falling Angel 
by William Hjortsberg
A Devilishly Original Twist
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jan 17, 2007
A Match Made in Heaven 
by Zev Chafets
Common Prayers
by DAVID TWERSKY
 Jan 15, 2007
The Man Who Saved Britain 
by Simon Winder
Bonding With a Superhero
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jan 10, 2007
The Science of James Bond 
by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg
Bonding With a Superhero
by OTTO PENZLER
 Jan 10, 2007
The First Total War 
by David A. Bell
The All Against All
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 10, 2007
John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man 
by John Heilpern
Talking About My Generation: John Osborne
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 10, 2007
The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems 
by Tomas Tranströmer
Tranströmer's Whispers in a Microphone
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 10, 2007
Paula Spencer 
by Roddy Doyle
The Details Are the Design
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 10, 2007
The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire  Say It With Flowers
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Jan 9, 2007
The Original Knickerbocker 
by Andrew Burstein
The Man Who Gave New York Its (K)nicknames
by GARY SHAPIRO
 Jan 8, 2007
Blitz: The Story of December 29, 1940 
by Margaret Gaskin
Battered Kingdom
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Jan 3, 2007
Adam Haberberg 
by Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza's Blank Canvas
by CHLOË SCHAMA
 Jan 3, 2007
Putin's Russia 
by Anna Politkovskaya
Reporting from the Russian Front
by MARTHA MERCER
 Jan 3, 2007
The Red Cat Cookbook 
by Jimmy Bradley
Cozy Food From An Anti-Trend Restaurant
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jan 3, 2007
Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean 
by Gene Phillips
A Long Encounter With David Lean
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 3, 2007
Sacred Games 
by Vikram Chandra
More Love and Longing in Mumbai
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 3, 2007
Mothers and Sons 
by Colm Tóibín
The Silent Pride Of Sons
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 3, 2007
Arlington Park 
by Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk's Motherhood Blues
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 27, 2006
Prime Green 
by Robert Stone
Memoir Of a Merry Prankster
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 27, 2006
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City 
by Andrew S. Dolkart
Low in the Lower East Side
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Dec 26, 2006
Landscape With Moving Figures 
by Laura Jacobs
Diary of a Dance Connoisseur
by JOY GOODWIN
 Dec 26, 2006
George III: America's Last King 
by Jeremy Black
Hanoverian Home Life With Brother George
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 20, 2006
Collected Poems 
by John Betjeman
Unmitigated England
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 20, 2006
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings 
by Stella Tillyard
Hanoverian Home Life With Brother George
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 20, 2006
The Writer of Modern Life 
by Walter Benjamin
Flâneurs in the Night
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 20, 2006
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination 
by Lee Siegel
The Limits of Sex and Siegel
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Dec 20, 2006
Calvin Coolidge 
by David Greenberg
Keeping It Cool With Silent Cal
by ERICA GRIEDER
 Dec 20, 2006
Betjeman: A Life 
by A.N. Wilson
Unmitigated England
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 20, 2006
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood 
by Rashid Khalidi
The Iron Illusions of Rashid Khalidi
by EFRAIM KARSH
 Dec 14, 2006
Hannibal Rising 
by Thomas Harris
Just a Victim Of Circumstances
by ROBERT ASAHINA
 Dec 13, 2006
Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II 
by Michael Bess
The Great Escape
by ANDREW ROBERTS
 Dec 13, 2006
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It 
by Mark Steyn
All Tomorrow's Euro-Muslims
by JOSEF JOFFE
 Dec 13, 2006
God's War: A New History of the Crusades 
by Christopher Tyerman
A Ripe Moment To Revisit ‘God's War'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 13, 2006
George Gershwin: His Life and Work 
by Howard Pollack
George Gershwin's Rhapsody of Life
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Dec 13, 2006
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins 
by Amanda Vaill
The Dancing Master
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 13, 2006
Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth 
by Brigitte Hamann
Winnie and the Wolf
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Dec 11, 2006
The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of the Original Good News 
by James Robinson
New Testament Trifecta
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Dec 8, 2006
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome 
by Rodney Stark
New Testament Trifecta
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Dec 8, 2006
What Paul Meant 
by Garry Wills
New Testament Trifecta
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Dec 8, 2006
Ooga-Booga 
by Frederick Seidel
The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 7, 2006
Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand 
by Benita Eisler
Walk Like a Man, Write Like a Woman
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 6, 2006
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction 
by Denys Johnson-Davies
The Novel in Arab Hands
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 6, 2006
Barefoot Contessa at Home 
by Ina Garten
The Contessa In Her Palace
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Dec 6, 2006
Horse Latitudes 
by Paul Muldoon
The Magpie Artist
by SAM MUNSON
 Dec 5, 2006
The End of the Poem 
by Paul Muldoon
The Magpie Artist
by SAM MUNSON
 Dec 5, 2006
The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin 
by James Laughlin
The Playboy Publisher
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 5, 2006
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World 
by Paul Cartledge
Thermopylae: Round One in the Clash of Civilizations
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Dec 4, 2006
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age 
by Robin Waterfield
Thermopylae: Round One in the Clash of Civilizations
by BRENDAN BOYLE
 Dec 4, 2006
Margherita Dolce Vita 
by Stefano Benni
In Youth Is Pleasure
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 29, 2006
Enchantments 
by Linda Ferri
In Youth Is Pleasure
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 29, 2006
George Mason, Forgotten Founder 
by Jeff Broadwater
Uncovering the Story Of a Forgotten Founder
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 29, 2006
Pages from the Goncourt Journals 
by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Masters of Indiscretion
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 29, 2006
Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind 
by Peter Kramer
Freud's Will to Power
by RONALD W. DWORKIN
 Nov 29, 2006
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World 
by Kati Marton
Tales from The Old Country
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Nov 28, 2006
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 
by Michael Korda
Tales from The Old Country
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Nov 28, 2006
One Must Also Be Hungarian 
by Adam Biro
Tales from The Old Country
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Nov 28, 2006
What Is the What 
by Dave Eggers
Who Is the Who?
by STEFAN BECK
 Nov 28, 2006
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy 
by Ian Toll
Thinking Navy
by CARNES LORD
 Nov 27, 2006
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City 
by Carl Smith
The Man With the Chicago Plan
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Nov 24, 2006
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 
by Mark Moyar
The War That Could Have Been Won
by GUENTER LEWY
 Nov 24, 2006
Casanova's Women 
by Judith Summers
All the Memoirist's Women
by IRIS BROOKS
 Nov 24, 2006
William Faulkner 
by M. Thomas Inge
William Faulkner: Modernism Unvanquished
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 22, 2006
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid 
by Jimmy Carter
The World According to Carter
by ALAN DERSHOWITZ
 Nov 22, 2006
The Successor 
by Ismail Kadare
Havoc in the House of Hoxha
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 22, 2006
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation 
by Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts
In the Heat of The Southern Night
by WILFRED M. MCCLAY
 Nov 22, 2006
Agamemnon's Daughter 
by Ismail Kadare
Havoc in the House of Hoxha
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 22, 2006
Leonard Woolf: A Biography 
by Victoria Glendinning
The Constant Husband
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 22, 2006
Michael Kohlhaas 
by Heinricht von Kleis
Justice on Horseback
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 22, 2006
Best of Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American World Power 
by James Traub
The Courtier to Annan
by CLAUDIA ROSETT
 Nov 15, 2006
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows 
by Gabor Boritt
Sacred Words, Sacred Grounds
by HAROLD HOLZER
 Nov 15, 2006
Measuring the World 
by Daniel Kehlmann
Difficult Pleasures
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 15, 2006
Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words 
by Douglas L. Wilson
Sacred Words, Sacred Grounds
by HAROLD HOLZER
 Nov 15, 2006
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die 
by David Crystal
The Discreet Charm of the Eyebrow Flash
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 15, 2006
The Secret Life of Harry Houdini 
by William Kalush and Larry Sloman
The Spy Who Came in From the Circus
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 15, 2006
Against the Day 
by Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon: He Who Lives By the List, Dies by It
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 15, 2006
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It 
by Mark Steyn
Steyn's New Book Combines Humor, Accuracy, Depth
by DANIEL PIPES
 Nov 14, 2006
New York 2000 
by David Fishman and Robert A. M. Stern and Jacob Tilove
Big Book for a Big City
by JAMES GARDNER
 Nov 8, 2006
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination 
by Neal Gabler
The Man Who Loved Children
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 8, 2006
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism 
by Robert D. Richardson
Enemy Of the Absolute
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 8, 2006
Carried Away: A Selection of Stories 
by Alice Munro
The Mythic Meets the Modern
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 8, 2006
In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems 
by Thomas Bernhard
Antiphons To A Displaced God
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 8, 2006
The View from Castle Rock 
by Alice Munro
The Mythic Meets the Modern
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 8, 2006
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary 
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
Nikita Khrushchev's Hard Bargains
by DAVID SATTER
 Nov 8, 2006
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence 
by Amy Sedaris
The Joy of Silly Cooking
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Nov 8, 2006
The Girl With a Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market 
by Lindsay Pollock
The Maven of Modernism
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Nov 8, 2006
Losing Hearts and Minds?: Public Diplomacy and Strategic Influence in the Age of Terror 
by Carnes Lord
The American Art of Persuasion
by MARTHA BAYLES
 Nov 8, 2006
Among the Righteous 
by Robert Satloff
Searching for an Arab Oskar Schindler
by JUDITH MILLER
 Nov 7, 2006
Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice 
by John Ashcroft
Reflections of an Attorney General
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
 Nov 3, 2006
100 Semesters 
by William M. Chace
Out of the Frying Pan, and Into Administration
by DAVID SIDORSKY
 Nov 3, 2006
Point to Point Navigation 
by Gore Vidal
Making It
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 3, 2006
Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream 
by Edward Humes
Readjusting the American Dream
by MILTON GREENBERG
 Nov 3, 2006
Inventing Great Neck 
by Judith Goldstein
Long Island's Postwar Paradise
by VINCENT J. CANNATO
 Nov 3, 2006
Voting To Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership 
by Jim Geraghty
The Republicans Will Play Solitaire
by RYAN SAGER
 Nov 2, 2006
The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots 
by David Callahan
The Republicans Will Play Solitaire
by RYAN SAGER
 Nov 2, 2006
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean 
by John Julius Norwich
Memory and the Mediterranean
by DAVID MASON
 Nov 1, 2006
The Brooklyn Novels 
by Daniel Fuchs
Dear Old Dirty Brooklyn
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 1, 2006
Andrew Carnegie 
by David Nasaw
You Can't Take it With You
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 1, 2006
The Lives of Rocks 
by Rick Bass
Deep in the Heart of Texas
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 1, 2006
The Aeneid 
by Virgil
Variations of Virgil
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 1, 2006
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns 
by Robert Appelbaum
No More Cakes And Ale
by FRED VOLKMER
 Oct 30, 2006
King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking  Flour Power
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Oct 25, 2006
Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis 
by Kevin Walsh
His Kind of Town
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Oct 25, 2006
Woodward and Bernstein 
by Alicia C. Shepard
The Outsiders With the Ultimate Inside Scoop
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 25, 2006
Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome 
by Leonard Barkan
The Professor of Desire on Sabbatical
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 25, 2006
The Ghost Map 
by Steven Johnson
An Atlas of the Plague Year
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Oct 25, 2006
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography 
by Piero Melograni
A Free-Market Mozart
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Oct 25, 2006
The Lay of the Land 
by Richard Ford
The Life and Times of a Salesman
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 25, 2006
Echo Park 
by Michael Connelly
A Sunny Place for Shady People
by OTTO PENZLER
 Oct 25, 2006
On Political Equality 
by Robert A. Dahl
Casting a Vote for Democracy
by WERNER J. DANNHAUSER
 Oct 24, 2006
Does American Democracy Still Work? 
by Alan Wolfe
Casting a Vote for Democracy
by WERNER J. DANNHAUSER
 Oct 24, 2006
Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency 
by Richard A. Posner
Pragmatism Trumps Suicide
by ANDREW C. McCARTHY
 Oct 20, 2006
The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews 
by David Mamet
The Weight of the World on Israel
by EFRAIM KARSH
 Oct 18, 2006
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today 
by Max Boot
The Difference Between Victory and Defeat
by BRUCE BERKOWITZ
 Oct 18, 2006
The Architecture of Happiness 
by Alain de Botton
Buying Happiness
by HENRY PETROSKI
 Oct 18, 2006
Frost 
by Thomas Bernhard
An Old Man's Novel
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 18, 2006
Selected Poems 
by James Fenton
The Stephen Spender Of His Generation
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 18, 2006
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford 
by Peter Y. Sussman
Turning a Blind Eye To a Brutal Party
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 18, 2006
Prisoners: A Muslim & a Jew Across the Middle East Divide 
by Jeffrey Goldberg
A Hebrew Huck Finn Reports In
by SETH LIPSKY
 Oct 16, 2006
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born 
by Tina Cassidy
Special Delivery
by ALEXANDRA BOWIE
 Oct 13, 2006
Stardust Lost 
by Stefan Kanfer
Chutzpah To Spare
by ROBERT SIMONSON
 Oct 12, 2006
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days 
by James Salter and Kay Salter
Two Writers' Writers
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 11, 2006
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India 
by Madhur Jaffrey
Savory Scenes of a Subcontinent
by JAYANTHI DANIEL
 Oct 11, 2006
Why Arendt Matters 
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Trying To Update a 20th-Century Master
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 11, 2006
Diana 
by Sarah Bradford
Diana's ‘Luminous' Life: Sarah Bradford's Version
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 11, 2006
Rescue Missions 
by Frederick Busch
Two Writers' Writers
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 11, 2006
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How To Get It Back 
by Andrew Sullivan
Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Oct 11, 2006
Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South 
by Thomas F. Schaller
Whose Country Is It, Anyway?
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Oct 11, 2006
Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras 
by Scott Messing
The Feminine Mystique
by BENJAMIN IVRY
 Oct 10, 2006
Irina: Ballet, Life and Love 
by Irina Baronova
The Tale of a ‘Baby Ballerina'
by JOEL LOBENTHAL
 Oct 10, 2006
The Man Time Forgot 
by Isaiah Wilner
Lost to the Sands of Time
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Oct 9, 2006
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live 
by Joan Didion
The Writer as Performance Artist
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 6, 2006
Isaac B. Singer: A Life 
by Florence Noiville
Ruthless Momentum Of a Literary Rocket
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 4, 2006
Wetback Nation 
by Peter Laufer
Two Views on an Old Borderline Battle
by ROBERT RIVARD
 Oct 4, 2006
The Improvisational Cook 
by Sally Schneider
All That Jazz
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Oct 4, 2006
Setting the Table 
by Danny Meyer
New York's King of Hospitality
by JENNIFER LEUZZI
 Oct 4, 2006
The Reaper's Line 
by Lee Morgan
Two Views on an Old Borderline Battle
by ROBERT RIVARD
 Oct 4, 2006
The Road 
by Cormac McCarthy
Writing Down To His Audience
by ALLEN BARRA
 Oct 4, 2006
Complete Poems and Selected Letters 
by Hart Crane
As American as the Brooklyn Bridge
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 4, 2006
I Was Vermeer 
by Frank Wynne
In the Eye of the Beholder
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 4, 2006
The Emperor's Children 
by Claire Messud
It's a Small Literary World
by KATE TAYLOR
 Oct 3, 2006
Mellon: An American Life 
by David Cannadine
The Greenspan Of His Day
by AMITY SHLAES
 Oct 2, 2006
Johnny U: The Life and Times of Johnny Unitas 
by Tom Callahan
When Football Met the Couch
by ALLEN BARRA
 Sep 29, 2006
Letter to a Christian Nation 
by Sam Harris
The Problems Of Skeptic & Believer
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 27, 2006
Iron Kingdom 
by Christopher Clark
Tall Soldiers, Moderate Taxes & Unwarlike Pietism
by EDWARD N. LUTTWAK
 Sep 27, 2006
The War of the World 
by Niall Ferguson
Our Own Worst Enemy
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Sep 27, 2006
The Trouble with Physics 
by Lee Smolin
Six Numbers in Search of a Theory
by MICHAEL SHERMER
 Sep 27, 2006
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn 
by Donald Spoto
Audrey's Timeless Allure
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 27, 2006
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Movements in the 20th Century 
by Jay Winter
The Forgotten Utopias of the 20th Century
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Sep 27, 2006
The Confession 
by James McGreevey
Predestined For Duplicity
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 26, 2006
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations 
by Craig Nelson
Invoking the Almighty
by IRA STOLL
 Sep 26, 2006
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time 
by Karen Armstrong
The Perfect Surrender
by EFRAIM KARSH
 Sep 25, 2006
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates 
by Daniel Golden
Children of Alumni Check Here
by RICHARD BRADLEY
 Sep 21, 2006
The Lost 
by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Decision To Look Back
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 20, 2006
The Trial of Queen Caroline: The Scandalous Affair That Nearly Ended a Monarchy 
by Jane Robins
The Right of the Queen
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 20, 2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups 
by Ron Rosenbaum
The Urge To Know Thy Bard
by JOHN SIMON
 Sep 19, 2006
The Wonga Coup 
by Adam Roberts
A Missed Opportunity
by NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
 Sep 14, 2006
Bad Faith 
by Carmen Callil
The Great Evil of a Grotesque Bon Vivant
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 13, 2006
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War 
by David Corn and Michael Isikoff
Iraq: Counterfactuals Without Context
by ELI LAKE
 Sep 13, 2006
Emma Lazarus 
by Esther Schor
Restoring Lazarus
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 13, 2006
Stonewall Kitchen Favorites 
by Kathy Gunst, Jonathan King and Jim Stott
Reinventing the Repertoire
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Sep 13, 2006
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive 
by Joel Meyerowitz
Images of Destruction
by WILLIAM MEYERS
 Sep 11, 2006
Aftermath: Unseen 9/11 Photos by a New York City Cop 
by John Botte
Images of Destruction
by WILLIAM MEYERS
 Sep 11, 2006
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 
by Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins
Just Another Smear Campaign
by RYAN SAGER
 Sep 7, 2006
Forgetfulness 
by Ward Just
Guilt & Compromise
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Sep 6, 2006
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance 
by Ian Buruma
Trying To Explain Extremism
by FRED SIEGEL
 Sep 6, 2006
The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West 
by Robert Royal
Faith in Religious Truth
by BROOKE ALLEN
 Sep 6, 2006
Caesar: Life of a Colossus 
by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Apotheosis of Individual Achievement
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Sep 6, 2006
After This 
by Alice McDermott
The Soul of Nassau Past
by CLARE McHUGH
 Sep 6, 2006
Nicole Kidman 
by David Thomson
Look but Don't Touch
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Sep 6, 2006
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera 
by Philip Gossett
Where Hairsplitting Can Become High Drama
by MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
 Sep 6, 2006
Elizabeth 
by J. Randy Taraborrelli
Who's Afraid Of Elizabeth Taylor?
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Sep 6, 2006
The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party 
by Ryan Sager
Is the Party Over?
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Sep 5, 2006
The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize 
by Keith Dunnavant
The Troubled Heart Of Southern Football
by ALLEN BARRA
 Sep 1, 2006
Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South 
by Don Yaeger
The Troubled Heart Of Southern Football
by ALLEN BARRA
 Sep 1, 2006
Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission 
by Lee H. Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean
The Hurdles of Inquiry
by JUDITH MILLER
 Aug 30, 2006
John Mortimer: The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator 
by Graham Lord
Finding Mold Under Fingernails
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 30, 2006
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 
by David Brion Davis
Slavery and the Legacies of the American Revolution
by JOHN STAUFFER
 Aug 30, 2006
Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation 
by Francois Furstenberg
Slavery and the Legacies of the American Revolution
by JOHN STAUFFER
 Aug 30, 2006
Breakable You 
by Brian Morton
Difficulty of Empathy
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 30, 2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution 
by Simon Schama
Slavery and the Legacies of the American Revolution
by JOHN STAUFFER
 Aug 30, 2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History 
by Jonathan Franzen
An Inner Life Outgrown
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 30, 2006
A Woman in Jerusalem 
by A.B. Yehoshua
A Grim Mission of Atonement
by GABRIELLE BIRKNER
 Aug 24, 2006
Five Germanys I Have Known 
by Fritz Stern
A Happy Life in Difficult Times
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 23, 2006
Orson Welles: Hello Americans 
by Simon Callow
What Haunted The Genius
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 23, 2006
The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Greece 
by Nigel Bagnall
Our Imagination of Power
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 21, 2006
The Dissident 
by Nell Freudenberger
My Life as a Fake
by KATE TAYLOR
 Aug 17, 2006
Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child 
by Alissa Quart
Little Man Tate Gets Big
by ALEXANDRA BOWIE
 Aug 16, 2006
The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life 
by Edward Mendelson
Matters of Imagination
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Aug 16, 2006
Giraffe 
by J.M. Ledgard
Imagining Otherness
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 16, 2006
The Women of the House 
by Jean Zimmerman
The Colonial Touch
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 16, 2006
Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, And the Redemption of a Killer 
by Paul Bass and Douglas W. Rae
The Wasteful Legacy of Black Power
by JOHN McWHORTER
 Aug 16, 2006
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America 
by Peniel E. Joseph
The Wasteful Legacy of Black Power
by JOHN McWHORTER
 Aug 16, 2006
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails 
by Wayne Curtis
The Spirit of the Isles
by MAX WATMAN
 Aug 10, 2006
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death 
by Deborah Blum
Groping for Phantasms
by REBECCA GOLDSTEIN
 Aug 9, 2006
Simple Italian Sandwiches 
by Jason Denton
Home Cooking, From Italy & Harlem
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Aug 9, 2006
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq 
by Rory Stewart
A Prince Disappointed
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 9, 2006
Field Notes from a Catastrophe 
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Embracing Our Ever-Changing Earth
by PETER PETTUS
 Aug 9, 2006
The Taste of Country Cooking 
by Edna Lewis
Home Cooking, From Italy & Harlem
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Aug 9, 2006
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York 
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
A Good Fellow and a Wise Guy
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Aug 9, 2006
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth 
by Tim Flannery
Embracing Our Ever-Changing Earth
by PETER PETTUS
 Aug 9, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It 
by Al Gore
Embracing Our Ever-Changing Earth
by PETER PETTUS
 Aug 9, 2006
An Iliad 
by Alessandro Baricco
Taking the Gods out of Homer
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Aug 9, 2006
Robert Southey 
by W.A. Speck
Scarcely a Bright Portrait
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 9, 2006
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity 
by James Lovelock
Embracing Our Ever-Changing Earth
by PETER PETTUS
 Aug 9, 2006
The Life of Elvis Presley: Fortunate Son 
by Charles L. Ponce De Leon
The Wonder of an Icon
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 8, 2006
The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger And the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy 
by Joe Mathews
The Allure of Blockbuster Democracy
by JOHN FUND
 Aug 7, 2006
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition 
by Randall B. Woods
Appearing on the Side of Angels
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Aug 2, 2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 
by Lawrence Wright
Fundamental Blindness
by CHARLES FAIRBANKS
 Aug 2, 2006
Special Topics in Calamity Physics 
by Marisha Pessl
Passing the Test on Her Own Terms
by CLARE McHUGH
 Aug 2, 2006
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World 
by Colin Wells
The Splendid Corpse of Byzantium
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Aug 2, 2006
The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in America 
by Rodney Bolt
An Inveterate Self-Reinventor
by JAY NORDLINGER
 Jul 31, 2006
Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer 
by Brooke A. Masters
Carrying the Mantle of Federalism to Albany
by JACOB GERSHMAN
 Jul 26, 2006
Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax 
by Kate Berridge
The Thrill of the Mimetic
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 26, 2006
Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show 
by Geoffrey Nunberg
Talking Himself In Circles
by RYAN SAGER
 Jul 26, 2006
Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand 
by James Barron
An Old World Way of Doing Things
by ROBERT SIMONSON
 Jul 26, 2006
The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture 
by Franco Moretti
Taking a Novel Approach
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 26, 2006
Democracy: A History 
by John Dunn
What's So Special About Democracy?
by HARVEY MANSFIELD
 Jul 26, 2006
The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes 
by Franco Moretti
Taking a Novel Approach
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 26, 2006
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn 
by Caroline Moorehead
Half-Baked but Better Than Nothing
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 25, 2006
Hollow Earth 
by David Standish
The History of a Fantasy
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jul 20, 2006
Real Food 
by Nina Planck
The Case for Meat & Potatoes
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jul 19, 2006
The Passionate Gardener 
by Rudolf Borchardt
Gardening As Spirituality
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 19, 2006
A Heart Promptly Offered: The Revolutionary Leadership of John Calvin 
by David W. Hall
The Calamity of Selfhood
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 19, 2006
We 
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Dystopic Horror
by ADELE KUDISH
 Jul 19, 2006
Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture 
by John Strausbaugh
The Rosetta Stone Of Pop Culture
by MARTHA BAYLES
 Jul 18, 2006
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End 
by Peter Galbraith
Embracing the Three-State Solution in Iraq
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 Jul 17, 2006
Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 
by Stephen Walsh
The Genius As a Cuckoo
by DAMIAN THOMPSON
 Jul 17, 2006
What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers 
by Richard Brookhiser
Birds of a Feather
by HARRY JAFFA
 Jul 13, 2006
Kitchen Sense: More Than 600 Recipes To Make You a Great Home Cook 
by Mitchell Davis
Everything Old Is New Again
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jul 12, 2006
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz 
by Stanley Crouch
Getting the Praise He Deserves
by TIM MARCHMAN
 Jul 12, 2006
Italian Two Easy: Simple Recipes From the London River Cafe 
by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
Everything Old Is New Again
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Jul 12, 2006
Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea 
by George Lakoff
How To Lose the Language War
by DAVID SKINNER
 Jul 10, 2006
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 
by Ron Suskind
History as a Cartoon
by ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
 Jul 6, 2006
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 
by Deirdre McCloskey
With the Naivete of One Who Is in Love
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jul 5, 2006
Grant: A Biography 
by John Mosier
Different Takes On Greatness
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jul 5, 2006
The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq 
by Fouad Ajami
Holding Islam Accountable
by EFRAIM KARSH
 Jun 29, 2006
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia 
by Jeremy Beer and Bruce Frohnen and Jeffery O. Nelson
Cataloging the Success of Conservatism
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Jun 29, 2006
Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theatre 
by Jared Brown
What Happened After Act One
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 28, 2006
Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Making History) 
by Martin Gilbert
Storms Of Brutality
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 28, 2006
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz 
by Jan T. Gross
Storms Of Brutality
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 28, 2006
The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music 
by Dunstan Prial
A Talent for Discovery
by WILL FRIEDWALD
 Jun 27, 2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher 
by Debby Applegate
A Sex Scandal in Brooklyn
by EDITH BARTLEY
 Jun 26, 2006
Rejuvenile 
by Christopher Noxon
Oh, To Play Like a Child Again
by KRISTOFFER GARIN
 Jun 22, 2006
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England 
by Juliet Barker
A Victory Owed to God
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 21, 2006
The Busiest Man in England 
by Kate Colquhoun
Gardening for the World
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 21, 2006
The Futurist 
by James P. Othmer
Satire-Ready Product Placement
by LOUISA THOMAS
 Jun 21, 2006
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement 
by John Brockman
Scientists Take on Intelligent Design
by PAUL R. GROSS
 Jun 19, 2006
After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning 
by Roger Highfield and Ian Wilmut
Straight From The Sheep's Mouth
by PETER PETTUS
 Jun 19, 2006
The Correspondence 
by Lou Andreas-Salome and Rainer Maria Rilke
The Art Between Devils and Angels
by FRED VOLKMER
 Jun 14, 2006
Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century 
by Ivan Margolius
Recovered Reflections
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jun 14, 2006
Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister 
by Christopher Hibbert
More Than a Fancy Pants Young Man
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 14, 2006
From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States 
by Paul Hollander
An Antidote to Moral Blindness
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 14, 2006
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age 
by Joel Shurkin
An Unregulated Flow of Paranoia
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Jun 13, 2006
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup 
by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
What Are They Thinking?
by MICHAEL WOODSWORTH
 Jun 13, 2006
Can She Be Stopped? 
by John Podhoretz
The Older & Wiser Hillary
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Jun 12, 2006
Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century 
by Kevin Mattson
Author as Politician
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 7, 2006
Notes of a Pianist 
by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Diary of a 'One-Man Grateful Dead'
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jun 7, 2006
Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair 
by Anthony Arthur
Author as Politician
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jun 7, 2006
Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America 
by Josef Joffe
Our Great Power Dilemma
by MARK FALCOFF
 Jun 7, 2006
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom 
by Robert Williams
The Dominant Journalist Of Our Defining Era
by RICHARD J. TOFEL
 Jun 6, 2006
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq 
by Stephen Kinzer
Tunnel History of The 20th Century
by MICHAEL LEDEEN
 Jun 5, 2006
Man in the Shadows 
by Efraim Halevy
The Perfect Spy's Story
by DAVID TWERSKY
 Jun 2, 2006
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee 
by Charles Shields
Birth of a Great American Novel
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 31, 2006
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity 
by Rebecca Goldstein
The Mysterious Spinoza
by FRED BAUMANN
 May 31, 2006
The Good Fight 
by Peter Beinart
How the Left Lost America
by RONALD RADOSH
 May 31, 2006
The One That Got Away 
by Howell Raines
Big Fish and Bigger Blunders
by ELIZABETH SPIERS
 May 25, 2006
Unknown Soldiers 
by Neil Hanson
In the Theater Of Memory
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 May 24, 2006
Remembering War 
by Jay Winter
In the Theater Of Memory
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 May 24, 2006
James A. Garfield 
by Ira Rutkow
Diagnosing A Failed Presidency
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 24, 2006
The Possibility of an Island 
by Michel Houellebecq
In Search of Lost Taboos
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 24, 2006
Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad 
by Matthew Levitt
Popular Notions Laid Bare
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 May 23, 2006
Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World 
by J. Millard Burr and Robert Collins
Popular Notions Laid Bare
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 May 23, 2006
Seven Fires 
by Peter Hoffer
Fighting Fire With Knowledge
by WILLIAM BRYK
 May 22, 2006
Let Me Finish 
by Roger Angell
The Literary Rogers
by ALLEN BARRA
 May 19, 2006
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton 
by Kathryn Hughes
The Democratization of Homemaking
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 May 17, 2006
Proust in Love 
by William Carter
The Artist Who Becomes His Art
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 17, 2006
Reading Leo Strauss 
by Steven Smith
The Demonization Of Leo Strauss
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 17, 2006
The Societe Anonyme: Modernism in America  Art Books
by JAYANTHI DANIEL
 May 17, 2006
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris 
by Richard Davenport-Hines
The Artist Who Becomes His Art
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 17, 2006
Now It's My Turn 
by Mary Cheney
A Conservative Advocate for Gay Rights
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 May 16, 2006
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast 
by Douglas Brinkley
A Flood of Words on Katrina
by WILFRED M. McCLAY
 May 15, 2006
Abraham: The First Historical Biography 
by David Rosenberg
Imagining the Life of the First Jew
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 10, 2006
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education 
by Harry Lewis
What's Wrong With Harvard?
by IRA STOLL
 May 10, 2006
Theft: A Love Story 
by Peter Carey
The Art of Australianness
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 10, 2006
The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera 
by Joseph Volpe
From Carpenter to Head Honcho
by PIA CATTON
 May 9, 2006
Politics Lost : How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid 
by Joe KIein
Devoid of Authenticity
by JIM GERAGHTY
 May 8, 2006
Uncertain Shield 
by Richard Posner
Prognosis: Doom
by ANDREW McCARTHY
 May 3, 2006
Londonistan 
by Melanie Phillips
An Unholy Alliance
by FRED SIEGEL
 May 3, 2006
Islamic Imperialism: A History 
by Efraim Karsh
Three Myths About Islam
by EDWARD N. LUTTWAK
 May 3, 2006
The Din in the Head 
by Cynthia Ozick
A Moral Defense Of Literary Experience
by ADAM KIRSCH
 May 3, 2006
Open Target 
by Clark Kent Ervin
Prognosis: Doom
by ANDREW McCARTHY
 May 3, 2006
Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things 
by Robert Frenay
The Coming Paradigm Shift
by PETER PETTUS
 May 3, 2006
Before the Next Attack 
by Bruce Ackerman
Prognosis: Doom
by ANDREW McCARTHY
 May 3, 2006
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House 
by Godfrey Hodgson
The Friendship That Shaped a Presidency
by CARL ROLLYSON
 May 3, 2006
The Party of Death 
by Ramesh Ponnuru
The Shadow of Political Symbolism
by MARK STRICHERZ
 May 2, 2006
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope 
by Jonathan Alter
FDR and New Deal Lessons
by AMITY SHLAES
 May 1, 2006
Absurdistan 
by Gary Shteyngart
A Lesser Variation of His Talent
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 27, 2006
Everyman 
by Philip Roth
The Music of Self-Justification
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 26, 2006
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation 
by Catherine Allgor
Making the Most of Little
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 26, 2006
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read 
by Stuart Kelly
A Bibliophile's Worst Nightmare
by FRED VOLKMER
 Apr 26, 2006
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam 
by Mark Bowden
The First Battle in an Ongoing War
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Apr 26, 2006
Desperate Networks 
by Bill Carter
Why Nice Guys Finish Last in the TV Industry
by DAVID BLUM
 Apr 25, 2006
1973 Nervous Breakdown 
by Andreas Killen
Debatable Conjecture
by RUSS SMITH
 Apr 25, 2006
My Battle of Algiers 
by Ted Morgan
The War That Gave Birth to Urban Terrorism
by MARK FALCOFF
 Apr 20, 2006
The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art 
by Mark Rothko
Is the Pen Mightier Than the Brush?
by LANCE ESPLUND
 Apr 20, 2006
A Writer's Life 
by Gay Talese
The Font of New Journalism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 19, 2006
Do Animals Think? 
by Clive D.L. Wynne
Strange, Prodigious Creatures
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Apr 19, 2006
Elements of Style 
by Wendy Wasserstein
Uncommon Talent
by KATE TAYLOR
 Apr 19, 2006
New York 
by Tama Janowitz
The Glossy (and Grimy) Big Apple
by JAYANTHI DANIEL
 Apr 19, 2006
On Classical Economics 
by Thomas Sowell
Not Such a Hot Commodity
by MEGAN McARDLE
 Apr 19, 2006
The Dead Fish Museum  Panoply of Voices & Mild Magical Realism
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 19, 2006
The Nimrod Flipout 
by Etgar Keret
Panoply of Voices & Mild Magical Realism
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Apr 19, 2006
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long 
by Richard (Jr.) White
The Spirit of Napoleonic Restlessness
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 19, 2006
The Mercy Seat 
by Martyn Waites
The Mean Streets Of Anytown
by OTTO PENZLER
 Apr 19, 2006
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite 
by Ann Finkbeiner
Science for Better Government
by PETER PETTUS
 Apr 18, 2006
America Back on Track 
by Edward M. Kennedy
Laundry-Listing Government Folly
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Apr 17, 2006
Getting America Right 
by Edwin Feulner and Doug Wilson
Laundry-Listing Government Folly
by BRENDAN CONWAY
 Apr 17, 2006
Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life 
by Lloyd Allen
Sugar-Coated For Groupies
by KRISTOFFER GARIN
 Apr 13, 2006
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq 
by Bernard Trainor
From Invasion To Occupation
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 Apr 12, 2006
Geoffrey Zakarian's Town/ Country 
by Geoffrey Zakarian
A Cookbook That Bridges a Big Divide
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Apr 12, 2006
The Battle for Peace: A Frontline Vision of America's Power and Purpose 
by Tony Zinni
From Invasion To Occupation
by MICHAEL RUBIN
 Apr 12, 2006
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography 
by David Brown
He Defined Postwar Liberalism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 12, 2006
Insatiable: Tales From a Life of Delicious Excess 
by Gael Greene
Hardly Innocent
by MAX WATMAN
 Apr 12, 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 
by Michael Pollan
The Truth About Our Food Supply
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Apr 12, 2006
My Father Is a Book 
by Janna Malamud Smith
Groping After a Fading Shadow
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 12, 2006
My Life in France 
by Julia Child
An Epicurean's Life
by KATE CHRISTENSEN
 Apr 12, 2006
The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times 
by Anthony DePalma
A Reporter Unwilling To Admit His Mistakes
by MARK FALCOFF
 Apr 12, 2006
Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Volume One 
by Callie Angell
The Existential Drama of Posing
by NATHAN LEE
 Apr 10, 2006
Suite Francaise 
by Irene Nemirovsky
The Daring of a Ghost
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 7, 2006
Among Empires 
by Charles Maier
America & the World
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 5, 2006
A Nation Among Nations 
by Thomas Bender
America & the World
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Apr 5, 2006
My Lives 
by Edmund White
Sparing Us Nothing
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Apr 5, 2006
The Life and Times of Allen Lane 
by Jeremy Lewis
The Culture That Gave Rise to Labour
by MICHAEL KORDA
 Apr 5, 2006
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern 
by Joshua Zeitz
More Than an Extinct Fashion Choice
by KELLY JANE TORRANCE
 Apr 4, 2006
Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball 
by Scott Gray
The James Generation
by ALLEN BARRA
 Apr 3, 2006
Winners 
by Dayn Perry
The James Generation
by ALLEN BARRA
 Apr 3, 2006
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation 
by Jon Meacham
Reckoning With God in American History
by IRA STOLL
 Mar 31, 2006
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers 
by David L. Holmes
Reckoning With God in American History
by IRA STOLL
 Mar 31, 2006
The Revenge of Thomas Eakins 
by Sidney Kirkpatrick
Blood On Their Hands
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 29, 2006
The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times 
by Jeffrey Hart
A Conservative Voice Through the Ages
by JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS
 Mar 29, 2006
Flaubert: A Biography 
by Frederick Brown
The Monk Of Literary Realism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 29, 2006
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine 
by Steven Rinella
At This Hunter's Table, It's 'Finders, Eaters'
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Mar 29, 2006
In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace the Welfare State 
by Charles Murray
The $10,000 Solution
by TIMOTHY KANE
 Mar 27, 2006
Death in the Haymarket 
by James Green
Rancor & Murder In 1880s Chicago
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Mar 24, 2006
What Jesus Meant 
by Garry Wills
A Meditation for Lent
by BRUCE CHILTON
 Mar 22, 2006
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions 
by Karen Armstrong
Seeking Guidance in Troubled Times
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 22, 2006
In Search of Willie Morris 
by Larry L. King
Giving the Perspective Of a Friend
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 22, 2006
The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 
by Gershom Gorenberg
Living To Fight Another Day
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Mar 20, 2006
In the Best Interests of Baseball?: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig 
by Andrew Zimbalist
Death of a Pastime, Birth of a Business
by RUSS SMITH
 Mar 16, 2006
Rousseau's Dog 
by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
A Viper in His Bosom
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 15, 2006
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy 
by Tom Wicker
Back to the McCarthy Myth
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 15, 2006
Tin God  New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 15, 2006
The Force of Reason 
by Oriana Fallaci
The Faith of an Atheist
by IRA STOLL
 Mar 15, 2006
Three Horses 
by Erri De Luca
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 15, 2006
Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Re-Invention of Modern Dance 
by Marcia Siegel
Pushing and Shoving
by JOEL LOBENTHAL
 Mar 14, 2006
Trickster Travels 
by Natalie Zemon Davis
Illuminating a World Of Fascinating Strangeness
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 13, 2006
Osman's Dream 
by Caroline Finkel
Knowledge Without A Larger Understanding
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 8, 2006
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova 
by Elaine Feinstein
A Life Without Illusions
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 8, 2006
Washington's God 
by Michael Novak
Free-Associating About Faith, From the Founders to Faddists
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 7, 2006
The God Factor 
by Cathleen Falsani
Free-Associating About Faith, From the Founders to Faddists
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 7, 2006
Manliness 
by Harvey Mansfield
The Neutering Of the American Male
by JAMES BOWMAN
 Mar 6, 2006
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell 
by Mark Kurlansky
Consider New York's Oysters
by MAX WATMAN
 Mar 2, 2006
Conversation: A History of a Declining Art 
by Stephen Miller
Not Fit for the Table, but Funny
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Mar 1, 2006
The Divided Ground 
by Alan Taylor
The Tragic Fate of Iroquoia
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Mar 1, 2006
Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism 
by Eric Burns
The Rise and Fall of Journalism in Early America
by RICHARD J. TOFEL
 Mar 1, 2006
Mick: The Real Michael Collins 
by Peter Hart
Looking Deeper Than the Popular Myth
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Mar 1, 2006
Crunchy Cons 
by Rod Dreher
The Rise of Bohemian Burkeans
by GERALD RUSSELLO
 Feb 28, 2006
America at the Crossroads 
by Francis Fukuyama
The Tactical Retreat of an Apostate
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 27, 2006
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too 
by Claire Berlinski
The Lebanonization of Europe
by FRED SIEGEL
 Feb 23, 2006
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within 
by Bruce Bawer
The Lebanonization of Europe
by FRED SIEGEL
 Feb 23, 2006
Patton: A Biography 
by Alan Axelrod
Facing the Legend
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 22, 2006
Better for All the World 
by Harry Bruinius
When Scientific Ideology Was a Mask for Racism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 22, 2006
The Master Plan 
by Heather Pringle
When Scientific Ideology Was a Mask for Racism
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 22, 2006
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill 
by Molly Worthen
Whispering From the Shadows
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 22, 2006
A Temple of Texts 
by William Gass
Squirting Bile From His Horse & Buggy
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 15, 2006
Written Lives 
by Javier Marias
The Perfect Treatment
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 15, 2006
No Two Alike 
by Judith Rich Harris
Who We Are & Why
by PETER PETTUS
 Feb 14, 2006
Irving Berlin's Show Business  The Man Who Made Them All Dance
by WILL FRIEDWALD
 Feb 14, 2006
On the Town 
by Marshall Berman
Midtown's Democracy of Pleasure
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 9, 2006
Barney Ross 
by Douglas Century
A Jew in the Modern World
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 8, 2006
Breaking the Spell 
by Daniel Dennett
If Men Are From Mars, What's God
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 8, 2006
Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America 
by Philip Jenkins
The Decade the Music Died
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Feb 7, 2006
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America 
by John Buffalo Mailer and Norman Mailer
Late Nights With the Mailers
by MAX WATMAN
 Feb 6, 2006
Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development 
by Joseph Stiglitz
An Undeveloped Plan for the Developing World
by DOUGLAS IRWIN
 Feb 2, 2006
Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways 
by Alan Dershowitz
Seeing Only Half of the Picture
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 1, 2006
With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right To Choose 
by Kate Michelman
How the Pro-Choice Movement Is Losing America
by MOLLIE ZIEGLER
 Feb 1, 2006
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny 
by Amartya Sen
Seeing Only Half of the Picture
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 1, 2006
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan 
by Michael Kazin
The Progressive Prophet
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Feb 1, 2006
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Seeing Only Half of the Picture
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Feb 1, 2006
The Good Life 
by Jay McInerney
Lights Out In the Big City
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 31, 2006
Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash 
by Liz Perle
Fear of Finance
by MEGHAN KEANE
 Jan 30, 2006
The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era 
by Edward Field
Judging Himself by His Acquaintances
by FRED VOLKMER
 Jan 26, 2006
Mussolini's Italy 
by R.J.B. Bosworth
The Siren of 20th-Century Evil
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 25, 2006
Twilight of the Superheroes 
by Deborah Eisenberg
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 25, 2006
Parrot 
by Paul Carter
Speak, Parrot
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Jan 25, 2006
The Bird Is a Raven 
by Benjamin Lebert
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 25, 2006
An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America 
by George De Stefano
Coming to Terms With the Mob
by ALLEN BARRA
 Jan 24, 2006
The Intellectuals and the Flag 
by Todd Gitlin
In Search of Patriotic Liberalism
by GERALD RUSSELLO
 Jan 23, 2006
The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship 
by John Willinsky
Libraries vs. The Internet
by ALEC MAGNET
 Jan 19, 2006
Upon the Altar of the Nation 
by Harry Stout
Judging the Decisions of Our Forefathers
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Jan 18, 2006
Embracing Family 
by Nobuo Kojima
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 18, 2006
The Accidental 
by Ali Smith
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Jan 18, 2006
The Greater Generation 
by Leonard Steinhorn
Assessing the Boomers, 60 Years On
by RUSS SMITH
 Jan 17, 2006
Rebel-in-Chief 
by Fred Barnes
Bush at War, As Told by Fred Barnes
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Jan 16, 2006
Winning the Race 
by John McWhorter
A Sociologist Of Rare Value
by TIM MARCHMAN
 Jan 12, 2006
Children of the Sun 
by Alfred Crosby
Light in the Darkness
by PETER PETTUS
 Jan 11, 2006
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism 
by Douglas Brinkley and Julie Fenster
Faith in an Exemplary Man
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 11, 2006
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture 
by Richard Pipes
What Sparked Russia's Totalitarianism?
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Jan 10, 2006
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and Mother in the Gilded Age 
by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Us Weekly, c. 1895
by KATE TAYLOR
 Jan 9, 2006
Dog Days 
by Ana Marie Cox
Wonkette Jumps the Snark
by ANDREW STUTTAFORD
 Jan 6, 2006
The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World 
by Michael Karpin
The Bulwark Against An Islamic Bomb
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Jan 4, 2006
Mozart 
by Julian Rushton
The Boy Wonder We Won't Let Grow Up
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 4, 2006
The Virtuoso Conductors: The Central European Tradition From Wagner to Karajan 
by Raymond Holden
When Wagnermania Reigned and Giants Took the Podium
by IVAN HEWETT
 Jan 4, 2006
Mozart's Women: The Man, the Music, and the Loves in His Life 
by Jane Glover
The Boy Wonder We Won't Let Grow Up
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Jan 4, 2006
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin  An Epistolary History of World War II
by GERALD RUSSELLO
 Jan 3, 2006
Women Who Make the World Worse  Can We Make the World Better?
by MEGHAN CLYNE
 Dec 29, 2005
The Courtier and the Heretic 
by Matthew Stewart
The Philosophy of Philosophy
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 28, 2005
The Battle for New York 
by Barnet Schecter
Capturing Manhattan's Bloodiest Street War
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Dec 22, 2005
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy 
by Park Honan
Hide It From the Biographobes
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 21, 2005
Collected Prose 
by Paul Auster
Borough of Chrome & Cream Cheese
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 20, 2005
President Reagan: The Triumph of the Imagination 
by Richard Reeves
Seeking Reagan's Rosebud
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Dec 19, 2005
The Power of Movies 
by Colin McGinn
Philosophy for The Big Screen
by REMY HOLZER
 Dec 15, 2005
The Cold War: A New History 
by John Lewis Gaddis
The Cold War Comes in From the Cold
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Dec 14, 2005
The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters 
by Ronald Bosco and Joel Myerson
A Piece of Proper Prosopography
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 14, 2005
The Plausibility of Life 
by John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner
Darwin's Dilemma Resolved?
by PAUL R. GROSS
 Dec 13, 2005
Siegfried Sassoon: A Life 
by Max Egremont
The Stories a Biographer Will Never Tell
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Dec 7, 2005
Mangoes & Curry Leaves 
by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Well-Traveled Eaters
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Dec 7, 2005
The New American Cooking 
by Joan Nathan
Well-Traveled Eaters
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Dec 7, 2005
Lords of the Levee 
by Herman Kogan and Lloyd Wendt
When Bosses Ruled
by WILLIAM BRYK
 Dec 6, 2005
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer 
by David Leavitt
Conflating the Problems of Man & Machines
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Dec 5, 2005
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch 
by Kenneth Koch
Remembering a Teacher for His Poetry
by FRED VOLKMER
 Dec 1, 2005
The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch 
by Kenneth Koch
Remembering a Teacher for His Poetry
by FRED VOLKMER
 Dec 1, 2005
The Right War?  The Right Debate About the War?
by IRA STOLL
 Nov 30, 2005
Get a Life 
by Nadine Gordimer
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 30, 2005
Ponary Diary 
by Kazimierz Sakowicz
Truth & Fiction In Wartime
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 30, 2005
Wordsworth: A Life 
by Juliet Barker
Getting Wordsworth Wrong
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 30, 2005
Massacre River 
by Rene Philoctete
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 30, 2005
A Stranger to Myself 
by Willy Peter Reese
Truth & Fiction In Wartime
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 30, 2005
Kafka: The Decisive Years 
by Reiner Stach
Giving Flesh to a Ghost
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 29, 2005
The New Lion of Damascus 
by David Lesch
Playing Nice With a Tyrant
by GRAEME WOOD
 Nov 28, 2005
Lillian Hellman: A Life With Foxes and Scoundrels 
by Deborah Martinson
The Lives and Lies of Lillian Hellman
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 25, 2005
Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook 
by Martha Stewart
Baking Books, Big and Small
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Nov 23, 2005
Confessions of a French Baker 
by Peter Mayle
Baking Books, Big and Small
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Nov 23, 2005
Here and Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke 
by Kenneth Burke
The Great Experiment
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 23, 2005
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father 
by Peggy Noonan
The Shoes of the Fisherman
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 23, 2005
An Invisible Country 
by Stephan Wackwitz
The Sins of the Pastor Visited Upon the Grandson
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Nov 22, 2005
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution 
by Marc Weingarten
How New Journalism Became Old News
by GERALD J. RUSSELLO
 Nov 21, 2005
Teacher Man 
by Frank McCourt
No Ordinary Teacher
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 17, 2005
Johnson on the English Language  The Boundless Chaos of a Living Speech
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 16, 2005
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary 
by Henry Hitchings
The Boundless Chaos of a Living Speech
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Nov 16, 2005
Lee Miller: A Life 
by Carolyn Burke
An Archetypal 20th-Century Woman
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 16, 2005
The People's State 
by Mary Fulbrook
A Very Dangerous Game
by DANIEL JOHNSON
 Nov 15, 2005
The Edifice Complex 
by Deyan Sudjic
Architecture's Evil (And Other) Geniuses
by FRANCIS MORRONE
 Nov 14, 2005
Elia Kazan: A Biography 
by Richard Schickel
Beyond the Waterfront
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 10, 2005
Cold Skin 
by Albert Sanchez Pinol
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 9, 2005
The Stalin Front 
by Gert Ledig
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Nov 9, 2005
Prayer: A History 
by Carol Zaleski and Philip Zaleski
The Folly of Prayer for Prayer's Sake
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Nov 9, 2005
Vegetable Love 
by Barbara Kafka
The Hungry Reader
by ADINA STEIMAN
 Nov 9, 2005
The Unknown Battle of Midway 
by Alvin Kernan
Honoring Dead Shipmates
by JOHN B. LUNDSTROM
 Nov 8, 2005
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade 
by Donald Critchlow
Accidental Elitism
by JESSICA GAVORA
 Nov 7, 2005
De Kooning's Bicycle 
by Robert Long
What Pollock's Paint Sounded Like
by FRED VOLKMER
 Nov 3, 2005
The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East 
by Robert Fisk
Dispatches From a Front-Line Warrior
by FRED SIEGEL
 Nov 2, 2005
Mencken: The American Iconoclast 
by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
A Mass of Menckeniana
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Nov 2, 2005
Do as I Say (Not as I Do) 
by Peter Schweizer
Profiles in Lacking Courage
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Nov 1, 2005
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt 
by Anne Rice
The Gospel According to the Goth
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 31, 2005
The World in a Phrase 
by James Geary
Doing the Philosophical Twist
by FRED VOLKMER
 Oct 27, 2005
Forty Ways To Look at JFK 
by Gretchen Rubin
A Belated Kennedy Hagiography
by RUSS SMITH
 Oct 26, 2005
Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church 
by John (Jr.) Allen
Cracking the Opus Dei Code
by MOLLIE ZIEGLER
 Oct 26, 2005
The War on Christmas 
by John Gibson
The Problem Of the 21st Century
by DIANE RAVITCH
 Oct 26, 2005
The Right To Be Wrong 
by Kevin Hasson
The Problem Of the 21st Century
by DIANE RAVITCH
 Oct 26, 2005
The Chosen 
by Jerome Karabel
Rigging the Admissions Game
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 26, 2005
Two Lives 
by Vikram Seth
A Marriage of East & West
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 25, 2005
Team of Rivals 
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
What Was He Like, Really?
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 24, 2005
Lincoln's Melancholy 
by Joshua Wolf Shenk
What Was He Like, Really?
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 24, 2005
The Hudson: A History 
by Tom Lewis
Along the Little-Water Place
by BROOKE ALLEN
 Oct 20, 2005
Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel 
by Jerome Charyn
A Bravura Biography
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 19, 2005
In the Fold 
by Rachel Cusk
A Literary Pen Knife
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 19, 2005
I, Wabenzi 
by Rafi Zabor
A Literary Pen Knife
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 19, 2005
Legends of Modernity 
by Czeslaw Milosz
Looking Man Right in the Eye
by ANNE APPLEBAUM
 Oct 19, 2005
Memories of My Melancholy Whores 
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of an Old Man
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 19, 2005
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy 
by Moises Naim
The Stowaways of the Global Economy
by MEGAN McARDLE
 Oct 18, 2005
Mao: The Unknown Story 
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Inside Mao's Prison
by PAUL HOLLANDER
 Oct 17, 2005
Auden and Christianity 
by Arthur Kirsch
Mr. Auden & Miss God
by PAUL DEAN
 Oct 13, 2005
Veronica 
by Mary Gaitskill
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 12, 2005
Mission to America 
by Walter Kirn
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 12, 2005
California: A History 
by Kevin Starr
The Blueprint State
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 12, 2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 
by Tony Judt
You've Come a Long Way
by RICHARD WOLIN
 Oct 12, 2005
Generation Rx 
by Greg Critser
Land of the Medicated
by KERRY HOWLEY
 Oct 11, 2005
Maimonides 
by Sherwin B. Nuland
There Was None Like Him
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 10, 2005
White Savage  Bringing the Eighth Baronet of New York Back to Life
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 6, 2005
Missing Mom 
by Joyce Carol Oates
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 5, 2005
Night Draws Near 
by Anthony Shadid
Moral Luck & the Iraq War
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 5, 2005
The Remarkable Baobab 
by Thomas Pakenham
The Tree Without a Rhyme
by ERIC ORMSBY
 Oct 5, 2005
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling 
by Richard Lyman Bushman
Affirmer & Dissenter Both
by CARL ROLLYSON
 Oct 5, 2005
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times 
by H.W. Brands
The Last of the Founding Fathers
by JOHN STEELE GORDON
 Oct 5, 2005
The Age of Anxiety 
by Haynes Johnson
Cranky Liberals
by CHRISTOPHER WILLCOX
 Oct 5, 2005
Seven Lies 
by James Lasdun
New Fiction
by BENJAMIN LYTAL
 Oct 5, 2005
How America Lost Iraq 
by Aaron Glantz
Moral Luck & the Iraq War
by ADAM KIRSCH
 Oct 5, 2005
Engineering Communism 
by Steven Usdin
Filling In the Gaps in the Rosenberg File
by RONALD RADOSH
 Oct 5, 2005
1945: The War That Never Ended 
by Gregor Dallas
The Pointillist Presentation of History
by GRAEME WOOD
 Oct 3, 2005
Don't Get Too Comfortable 
by David Rakoff
First World Kvetching
by MAX WATMAN
 Sep 30, 2005
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century 
by Mark Leonard
Those Pesky European Citizens
by DAVID POLANSKY
 Sep 29, 2005
The Unknown Matisse 
by Hilary Spurling
A Book for Every Matisse Fan
by STEVEN HARVEY
 Sep 29, 2005
Matisse the Master 
by Hilary Spurling
A Book for Every Matisse Fan
by STEVEN HARVEY
 Sep 29, 2005