All Book Reviews
Just Send Me WordThe letters of a young Soviet couple tell of Gulag life and love.
Truth Like the SunWriter Jim Lynch skillfully crafts parallel stories to create a relentless novel.
On the EveThe focus in this book about the approach of the Holocaust is not Adolf Hitler and the Nazis but the European Jews themselves.
Thomas Hart Benton: A LifeBiographer Justin Wolff makes a strong case that Thomas Hart Benton played a central role as American art moved into the modern era.
Beastly ThingsGuido Brunetti of the Venetian Commissario di Polizia returns – and we're glad to see him.
Running With the KenyansIn a move that is alternately naive, courageous, and entertaining, British journalist Adharanand Finn transplants to Kenya to learn from the world's best runners.
The Wind Through the KeyholeThe Wind Through the Keyhole" – a "Dark Tower"-related novel set in the fictional Mid-World – is unlikely to be ranked among Stephen King’s top works, but it's still plenty entertaining.
The Aleppo CodexThe most accurate Biblical codex in Jewish tradition – a book revered both for its linguistic precision and its beauty – has been a victim of intentional deceit and government cover-ups.
A Sense of DirectionThis first-rate travel book is – like all the best travel books – most fascinating when it has the author at its center.
A Disposition to Be RichThe author's great-grandfather was the Bernie Madoff of his age – a Ponzi schemer and con man who cheated a US president and kidnapped his own son.
All Woman and SpringtimeAlthough somewhat comparable to "Memoirs of a Geisha," this tale of North Korean women forced into the sex trade is a darker, crueler story.
A Difficult WomanHistorian Alice Kessler-Harris attempts an artistic, political, and moral portrait of a challenging subject: Lillian Hellman.
Private EmpirePulitzer Prize-winner Steve Coll takes a close look at secretive behemoth that is Exxon Mobil.
The Great DivergenceEconomic equality has slipped to an alarming low in the United States. In "The Great Divergence" Timothy Noah does an excellent job of telling us how this happened – and why it matters.
Honor in the DustThe historical lessons of Gregg Jones's exhaustively researched book about the US's campaign in the Philippines deserve to be remembered.
A Wedding in HaitiAuthor Julia Alvarez and her husband Bill travel to Haiti for a wedding – and then find themselves tied to a country and a culture.
The Race for What's LeftIt's not just oil and gas, warns Michael T. Klare in this first-rate wake-up call. Planet Earth is now in danger of running out of just about everything.
Farther AwayThe notably unsentimental Jonathan Franzen offers a clear-eyed defense of sentiment in this essay collection.
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American CityFrom Brooklyn to Philly to Houston: Is the American city of today becoming more like Paris?
CowFlorian Werner's book is a bright biography of the animal that's given us so much.
