All Book Reviews
'New England Bound' takes a serious look at an often overlooked storyFollow the sugar. Wendy Warren offers a feisty, intelligent account of the northern slave trade.
'Diane Arbus' examines a photographer who specialized in human mysteryLubow spends most of the book trying to convince us that Arbus was neither as perverse nor as tragic as she sometimes seemed.
Marc Andreyko offers lighthearted thrills in 'Wonder Woman '77'In this graphic novel collection, DC Comics turns back the clock to the disco days of 1977 and the Wonder Woman TV show.
'A Hero of France' takes readers deep into Occupied EuropeAlan Furst's latest wartime thriller follows a member of the Resistance working to smuggle Allied pilots to safety.
'Barkskins' is Annie Proulx's greatest novel yetThe immense forests of North America are both the setting and the obsession of Proulx's challenging and intensely satisfying new novel.
'A House Full of Daughters': seven generations in a literary familyJuliet Nicolson, granddaughter of Bloomsbury insider Vita Sackville-West, reflects on the experience of the female members of her all-too-famous family.
'Lost Among the Birds' tells a story of salvation through birdwatchingAuthor and bird watcher Neil Hayward loses himself in a year-long birding journey – and in the process he finds his life.
'Hogs Wild' showcases New Yorker writer Ian Frazier at his bestFrom undomesticated animals to rap music, crime, and homelessness, Frazier spins real life into a variety of vivid and compassionate stories.
'Katherine of Aragon' offers a lusciously sympathetic portrait of a spurned royalAlison Weir starts off her six-volume fictional series about the wives of King Henry VIII with a nuanced portrayal of Katharine of Aragon and those who surrounded her.
'Everyone Behaves Badly' chronicles the rise of Ernest HemingwayAs Hemingway's fame built, so did the list of people he betrayed or alienated.
'The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right' challenges perceptionColumbia law professor Michael Graetz and Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse argue that the idea that 'nothing much happened' under the Burger Court is a gross misconception.
'The Hatred of Poetry' offers a witty, passionate, funny critique of the genreMust we hate poetry to learn to love it? Ben Lerner delightfully argues that we must.
'Bush' is Jean Edward Smith’s portrait of the presidency of George W. BushGeorge W. Bush emerges in Smith’s account as an unprepared, stubborn, and feckless commander-in-chief.
'Raymie Nightingale' is Kate DiCamillo's new tale of friendship and longingThree girls want to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire Competition, each for a different reason. On the way to their goal they get to know each other – and themselves.
'Nazi Hunters' chronicles a dogged pursuit of justiceCriminals are never beyond the law – but how far should we go in persecuting Nazi officers, guards and soldiers 71 years after the end of World War II?
'Voyager' is Russell Banks's quest to unite place and meaningIn this collection of travel pieces, novelist Russell Banks reflects on his life choices and the places connected with them.
'Detroit Hustle': the story of a couple who put their faith in urban renewalAuthor Amy Haimerl and her new husband, Karl, buy the battered shell of a house in Detroit for $35,000. The costs prove greater than they could have imagined.
'String Theory' gathers the brainy, witty tennis writing of David Foster WallaceWallace’s slim collection of tennis profiles and tournament sketches is strewn with brilliant asides.
'Wolf Hollow': a powerful middle-grade tale of friendship, courageAnnabelle has always lived happily on her family’s farm in western Pennsylvania. But when Betty, a new girl, arrives in town, life changes significantly.
'Herbert Hoover in the White House' offers a more fully dimensional portraitCharles Rappleye fleshes out the standard picture of Hoover by using a greater array of primary sources – newspaper accounts, government documents, private diaries – than any previous account.
