All Book Reviews
'The Tyrannosaur Chronicles' tracks giant 100 million year-old lizardsDavid Hone's fantastic book is much more than just a celebration of the most charismatic of dinosaurs – it's also an in-depth look at what we know about them, and how we know it.
'The House of Hidden Mothers' tackles the complex ethics of surrogacyIn Meera Syal's novel, a couple's hope to have a child leads them to international surrogacy, and a host of complications.
'Paul McCartney': Philip Norman takes a closer look at 'the cute one'Philip Norman's big new life of Sir Paul makes the case for a rebellious spirit masked by a showman's charm.
'Coyote America' takes a fresh look at a well known enemyEver since the first settlers arrived in America, the relationship between humans and coyotes has been hostile. Now, author Dan Flores explores the idea of coexistence.
'My Lady Jane' plays delightful games with English historyThis modern comedy novel transforms the tale of Lady Jane Grey into a fictional festival.
'The Imperial Wife' finds shades of Catherine the Great in a NY emigreExploring challenging gender roles, Reyn parallels 18th-century Russia and present day New York City to see contrast and similarities in two wives's marital relationships.
'Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: Volume 1' looks behind the scenesThe Library of American Comics mines some early Disney comic strip gems.
'Underground Airlines' takes readers on a turbulent ride of imaginationAuthor Ben H. Winters creates a fictional US in which slavery has never been abolished.
'The Nordic Theory of Everything' wishes the US were more ScandinavianA Finnish journalist explains what the United States can learn from Nordic countries
'White Trash' argues that America has always been riven by class conflictHistorian Nancy Isenberg's book is a carefully researched indictment of a particularly American species of hypocrisy, and it’s deeply relevant today.
'Bobby Kennedy' is an engaging look at the most enigmatic KennedyLarry Tye's book has the field to itself in the quest to be the definitive life of the man who was Ambassador Joseph Kennedy's third son, President Kennedy's Attorney General, and 1968's most evocative candidate for president.
'The Sport of Kings,' C. E. Morgan's second novel, is large in every senseMorgan gives us more than two centuries of love, hatred, and dramatic action.
'End of Watch': Stephen King's trilogy roars to a satisfying conclusionStephen King is really, really good at what he does.
'Jackson, 1964' sheds light on some very dark chapters of US historyFor half a century, Calvin Trillin has been writing about race in America.
'The Bones of Grace': Anam's ‘Bengal trilogy’ comes to a graceful closeThe final book of Tahmima Anam's 'Bengal trilogy' encompasses lost love, history, and ceaseless perseverance.
'The Romanovs' tells the gripping, tragic, fascinating story of Russia's tsarsThe focus of this enormous book is on character and the distorting effects of absolute power on both rulers and their advisors in each era, culminating in 'the often bizarre, daft and self-defeating trajectory of the last Romanovs.'
'Dark Night' turns Batman into a real-life heroPaul Dini recounts his real-life journey out of darkness after a harrowing mugging with the help of a certain Caped Crusader.
'China's Future' predicts the protracted decline of China's Communist PartyChina watcher David Shambaugh once thought China's Communist Party would be able to adapt and survive, but he now says that without reform the Party has nowhere to go.
'The Way to the Spring' chronicles the frustration, heartbreak of Palestinians'This is our lives,' novelist and journalist Ben Ehrenreich hears over and over from residents of Nabi Saleh, a small town 25 minutes northwest of Ramallah in Palestine's West Bank.
'Living with a Dead Language' proves that Latin isn't really dead at allWhy one New York book publisher decided to spend her retirement years mastering the language of the Roman Empire.
