Anzio

“Highly readable, and of much interest to students of WWII history.” —Kirkus Reviews…

In France Profound

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in a town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to…

Levi’s Children

The New Great Game

“A compact style and a sharp eye for detail . . . help the reader digest a huge and complex subject. . . . [Kleveman] is clearly an intelligent observer…

Grove at Home: September 27—October 3

…I might have felt a bit less alone. BM: Favorite book to give as a gift? CLF: Jonathan Miles’s great early novel, Dear American Airlines. It has the virtue of…

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

“An exhilarating, dissonant ride . . . Dery, one of our most astute contemporary cultural critics . . . relishes his role as curator of America’s bulging cabinet of horrors….

Charlie Wilson’s War

“Americans often ask: ‘Where have all the heroes gone?’ Well a lot of them come roaring through in this tour de force of reporting and writing. Tom Clancy’s fiction pales…

Icelander

“Icelander is . . . a kind of Series of Unfortunate Events for adults . . . It is writing born out of hysterical laughter and a lingering sense of…

Frisk

“Frisk is a significant work of fiction. Cooper . . . wants to lead us into the wormy heart of the murderous impulse.” –Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at…