Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
March 15, 2025"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
March 14, 2025"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Driftless by David Rhodes
March 13, 2025In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
March 13, 2025It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
March 13, 2025The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...




