All Book Reviews
'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鈥檚 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 鈥楤engal trilogy鈥� comes to a graceful closeThe final book of Tahmima Anam's 'Bengal trilogy' encompasses lost love, history, and ceaseless perseverance.聽
'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.聽
'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.
'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 鈥� 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.
