All Book Reviews
Knocking on Heaven's DoorJournalist Katy Butler questions current end-of-life care practices in a book that is both compelling and affecting.
Norman Mailer: A Double LifeJ. Michael Lennon tackles the wildly eventful life and career of Norman Mailer, in the first biography since Mailer's 2007 death.
Aimless LoveThis new collection will cause Billy Collins fans to fall in love all over again.
Days of FireNew York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker examines George W. Bush's presidency 鈥� a presidency, Baker argues, that rises or falls with the decision to invade Iraq.
The LuminariesEleanor Catton's epic mystery, set in 19th-century New Zealand, is the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.
The GoldfinchDonna Tartt's long-awaited new novel follows Theo Decker, a young orphan who takes possession of a legendary painting.
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2Mark Twain rambles (delightfully) through his own life and opinions.
The Signature of All ThingsEat, pray, love 鈥� then write a really good novel.
CountrymenThe Final Solution loomed over Denmark's Jews in 1943, but their nation was not prepared to give them up.
The CircleA young woman joins a tech firm with Orwellian ambitions in Dave Eggers's accomplished new novel.
Book of AgesNew Yorker writer Jill Lepore examines the life of an 鈥榚very woman' who just happens to be the sister of Benjamin Franklin.
One SummerBill Bryson centers on the summer of 1927 鈥� a seminal season, but not an innocent one.
Thank You for Your ServiceWashington Post journalist David Finkel focuses on an often-neglected narrative: what happens when soldiers return home.
Catastrophe 1914British journalist and historian Max Hastings explores the tumultuous and sometimes baffling early months of World War I.
Men We ReapedJesmyn Ward's powerful, wrenching memoir tells the story of her upbringing, and chronicles the deaths of five young black men that she loved, including her brother Joshua.
David and GoliathMalcolm Gladwell subverts our assumptions about winners and losers in his newest work.
Traveling SprinklerThe poetic adventures of the quirky, exasperating, yet oddly lovable Paul Chowder continue in Nicholson Baker's sequel to 'The Anthologist.'
Doctor SleepStephen King's new novel catches up with 'Shining' character Danny Torrance as an adult.
Drama HighHow a struggling Pennsylvania high school became a theater dynamo.
WilsonA. Scott Berg's biography of Woodrow Wilson pales next to a recent work by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
