Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
April 19, 2025
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
April 18, 2025
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish
April 17, 2025Naish states that “most dinosaur books look at current views on dinosaurs and briefly recap the...
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
April 14, 2025He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants,...
My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
April 13, 2025Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
April 13, 2025The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
April 12, 2025Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
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