All Book Reviews
'The Golden House' is Salman Rushdie's failed attempt to capture America in the Trump eraRushdie's twelfth novel feels like a rehash of old themes with a 21st-century gloss.
'The Last of the Tsars' is authoritative, definitive, and tells a compelling storyOxford historian Robert Service examines the overthrow of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II in February 1917.
'George and Lizzie' proves Nancy Pearl can also be a storytellerCelebrity librarian Pearl - best known for her book recommendations 鈥� comes out with her first novel.
'The Heart's Invisible Furies' is the funny, touching story of an Irish EverymanBoyne's new novel follows its protagonist throughout the decades, from birth in 1945 to age 70, and the story encompasses a great deal of history.
'So Happiness to Meet You' spins an improbable premise into a deft memoirAuthor聽Karin Esterhammer聽talked her husband into selling nearly everything they owned to move to Vietnam with their 8-year-old son.
3 science books compelling enough to speak to all readersBob Berman's 'Zapped,'聽Max Tegmark's 'Life 3.0,' and Richard Dawkins's 'Science in the Soul' succeed in turning science books into good summer reads.
'Stark Mad Abolitionists' is a dramatic and gripping account of the battle over slavery fought in KansasRobert K. Sutton brilliantly brings history to life in this thoroughly researched and passionately recounted story.
'Charlton Heston' is a voluminous, possibly definitive, study of a Hollywood paragon of masculinityA portrait of the actor who gave life to the larger-than-life.
'White Tears' follows two Brooklyn hipsters who fake an old blues song and pay the priceIn the new novel from the author of 'Gods Without Men' and 'Revolution,' an attempt to fabricate a work of art sets off a voyage into the darkness of American history.
'Poetry Will Save Your Life' is a sketchbook of personal experience through the lens of poetryPoet Jill聽Bialosky illuminates for us the joys and tragedies that have shaped her 鈥� saved her 鈥� through poetry.听
'The Epic Crush of Genie Lo' is young adult author F.C. Yee's laugh-out-loud debutSixteen-year-old protagonist Eugenia 'Genie' Lo is much more interested in getting into Harvard than in learning that she is a Chinese deity.
'The Commander' illuminates a figure at the heart of the 20th-century Arab nationalist movementFawzi al-Qawuqji spanned a remarkable period in Arab history and led a life well worth examining.
'Mary McCarthy: The Complete Fiction' may startle youThe genius of Mary McCarthy's fiction, writes Melissa H. Pierson, is that she lets no one off the hook.
'The House of Government' is packed with a fascinating tangle of true, uniquely Russian storiesThe book's title is an actual place: a vast apartment building 鈥� built in 1931 for the new Communist ruling elite 鈥� standing on an embankment in the Moscow River, just opposite the Kremlin.听
'Wild Things' is a delicious dive into the world of children's litBruce Handy鈥檚 brief but deeply satisfying survey of children鈥檚 literature marries curiosity, humor, and downright excitement.
'From Holmes to Sherlock' celebrates the versatility of one of fiction's most beloved charactersMattias Bostr枚m's terrific new book traces the Sherlock Holmes story from Doyle's original inspiration and on, up through Benedict Cumberbatch.
'Rescued from ISIS' recounts a father's harrowing journey to save his sonIn his memoir, writer Dimitri聽Bontinck describes his odyssey into the heart of ISIS territory to rescue his son.
'Home Fire' is an exquisite modern tragedy about families caught between religion, politicsKamila Shamsie uses a conflict zone to explore combustible human relationships.
'Do Not Become Alarmed' finds suspense on a luxurious Christmas cruiseIn Maile Meloy's new novel, a carefully controlled vacation gives way to crisis, and reveals the thin membrane that surrounds a 'predictable' life.听
'Morningstar' shows how the books she read shaped a young woman's lifeAnn Hood's memoir about reading as a form of self-discovery is fast-paced and beguiling.
