All Book Reviews
'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鈥檚 portrait of the presidency of George W. BushGeorge W. Bush emerges in Smith鈥檚 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 鈥� and themselves.
'Nazi Hunters' chronicles a dogged pursuit of justiceCriminals are never beyond the law 鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 鈥� newspaper accounts, government documents, private diaries 鈥� than any previous account.
'Missing Man' delves into Robert Levinson's 2007 disappearance in IranBarry Meier has finely choreographed Levinson鈥檚 story, and brought it into the light from the shadow world
'Secondhand Time' records previously unheard witnesses to Soviet lifeThis is the kind of history, otherwise almost unacknowledged by today鈥檚 dictatorships, that matters.
'LaRose' is Louise Erdrich's beautiful new novel of love, atonement, justiceHow does one atone for wrong? Erdrich's characters 鈥� on a North Dakota reservation and in the nearby town 鈥� struggle to find the path forward.
'Elizabeth': how she ruled, from 1588 to her death in 1603Guy does a masterfully comprehensive job writing about the Elizabeth of these waning years
'The Secret War' tells the remarkable story of World War II espionageThe highly respected British military historian Max Hastings has written an authoritative and engaging book that will stand as the definitive single volume analysis of 'The Secret War' for years to come.
'The Politicians & the Egalitarians' posits conflict as central to democracyWhat historian Sean Wilentz gets really passionate about in this collection of essays is the defense of politicians and the political process.
'The Twilight Children' makes a compelling coda to a remarkable careerReleased shortly after the sudden passing of creator Darwyn Cooke, 'The Twilight Children' pays fitting tribute to an exceptional talent.
