Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
May 13, 2025There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
May 13, 2025Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
May 12, 2025I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher
May 12, 2025Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (“tarp”), a man his men call...
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
May 5, 2025Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
May 3, 2025Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Book Review: I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner
May 1, 2025If the book were a movie, it would be rated R; the author’s got a dirty...
Michelangelo: A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino
April 23, 2025Before dawn on the morning of February 18 a group of Florentines entered the church stealthily...
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
April 21, 2025There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...




