Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
September 12, 2026Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 12, 2026Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
September 10, 2026A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Book Review: Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough
September 6, 2026In the Nashville of the 1960s, songs were typically recorded in an hour or less and...
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
September 5, 2026Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Book Review: The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
September 5, 2026There are cases in which even though relatives of the victims have argued against death for...
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
September 4, 2026I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher
September 4, 2026Gallagher 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
August 28, 2026Giap 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
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...




