All Book Reviews
'Casey Stengel' profiles baseball's greatest character'Casey Stengel" is a wonderful romp through America's collective field of dreams.
'The World to Come' blends history and fiction in a short story collectionJim Shepard's work is an astonishingly powerful demonstration of fiction鈥檚 capacity to transport us across time and space.
'A Land Without Borders' rethinks the two-state solution in the Middle EastMarking the 50-year anniversary of Israel鈥檚 occupation of the West Bank, a Jewish activist travels the Middle East in search of answers.
'The Confessions of Young Nero' skillfully reshapes the image of NeroIn a historical novel that makes for delightful reading, best-selling writer Margaret George gives her readers a more sensitive, introspective version of teen-heartthrob Nero.
'No One Cares About Crazy People' cries for more attention for the mentally illPulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Powers draws on heart-wrenching personal experience in writing about the way society treats the mentally ill.
'A Colony in a Nation' describes a colony of the unfree within the USJournalist Chris Hayes argues that some US politicians and law enforcement officials act as if whole areas of America constitute a separate realm of less value where different rules apply.
'Silly Symphonies Volume 2' delights with more classic Disney comic stripsThis is a handsome book with lots of extras to enhance the marvelous comic strips.
'This Long Pursuit' is a biographer's paean to his craftIn the most pleasing possible way, biographer Richard Holmes comes across in his own collected writing as contagiously curious, casually erudite, and just a bit daft.
'Fallen Glory' explores the most famous buildings that no longer existScottish historian James Crawford finds meaning in lost landmarks.
'March 1917' follows Russia and the US in a year that shaped the futureJournalist Will Englund suggests that World War I set both the United States and Russia on the paths they would follow for the next century.
'Temporary People' depicts the lives of guest workers in the UAENovelist Deepak Unnikrishnan tells tales of 'people from elsewhere' who live as perpetual foreigners, often in fear, with precarious futures.
Three terrific new novels for young readersNothing signals spring better than a newly-published crop of books. These three novels for middle-grade readers (ages 8-14), feature interesting young narrators and strong, unique stories.
'No Friend But the Mountains' asks why war is so often waged on mountainsWar correspondent Judith Matloff travels the world, exploring the many conflicts that have erupted at high altitude.
'South and West' pulls together jottings made by Joan Didion while travelingReaders would do well to follow the route mapped out in 'South and West': to be inquisitive about those with whom they seem to have nothing in common, including electoral preferences.
'The Devil's Mercedes' investigates a pair of notorious Nazi limosA major question surrounded both cars 鈥� which Nazi had used them?
'The Novel of the Century' chronicles literary phenomenon 'Les Mis茅rables'But the heart of this book's tale is in the bookshops of Paris, where it should be.
'Civil Wars' considers internecine conflict throughout its long historyHistorian David Armitage packs a great deal of learning and insight into a text of little more than 200 pages.
'Duck Season' follows a Francophile on a quest to live life deeply in rural FranceFood and travel writer David McAninch moves to rural France, in search of a unique, authentic experience in a foreign land.
'A Piece of the World' looks deep within the story of an iconic paintingChristina Baker Kline, an artist herself, draws on the real history behind Andrew Wyeth's famed painting 'Christina's World' to conjure up her own haunting portrait.
'The Hate U Give' provides a window into conversations about raceThis excellent young adult novel tackles the toughest topics without flinching.
