All Book Reviews
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
NPR host Steve Inskeep writes about Karachi – a sprawling, striving, fractured city on the rise.
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis touches down in the nations damaged by the 2008 financial meltdown and proves – yet again – that he can turn anything into compelling prose.
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Did a poem discovered by an Italian book collector make the Renaissance possible?
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Fenway 1912
Glenn Stout paints a vivid portrait of a moment in the history of America's favorite pastime.
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For Columbus Day: more nuanced views of Columbus
Two new books offer perceptive takes on Christopher Columbus and the long-range impact of his famous discovery.
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We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
A US State Department insider examines the one thing no one in Iraq wanted to admit: defeat.
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South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
Long-distance swimmer and author Lynne Cox traces the path of polar explorer Roald Amundsen – just in time for the centennial of his arrival at the South Pole.
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Eisenhower: The White House Years
A new biography on Eisenhower is engaging but airbrushes some of Ike's mistakes and flaws.
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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Captured by the camera’s eye, two Arkansas women have never been able to escape a historic photo – or each other.
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River of Smoke
The Opium Wars bring new trials – and fresh adventures – to the cast of characters introduced in the rollicking "Sea of Poppies."
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Ghosts by Daylight
A war correspondent faces her most frightening challenge: ordinary domestic life.
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Aleph
From lurid sexual fantasies to New Age platitudes, “Aleph” marks a low point for Paulo Coelho.
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells the larger-than-life story behind canine movie star Rin Tin Tin.
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Last Man In Tower
Aravind Adiga's novel about gentrification in India explores the dark side of human nature.
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What It Is Like to Go to War
A Vietnam vet urges soldiers to talk more openly about what it means to fight.
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This Burns My Heart
A South Korean woman struggles to make a life for herself after realizing that she has married the wrong man.
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Dreams of Significant Girls
Three teenage rebels live out an era of change in a Swiss boarding school.
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin demonstrates how the global quest for energy will reshape our world.
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Hemingway's Boat
From global acclaim to suicide: Paul Hendrickson examines the three final decades of Ernest Hemingway.
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King of the Badgers
The inhabitants of a small English town respond to a shocking crime.
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