2010
Print the Legend
Editors' choice
Since I have never been a Hemingway fan, the plot of Print the Legend only mildly intrigued me. I was…
The Lady in the Tower
The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of…
Too Many Murders: A Carmine Delmonico Novel
With a population of only 150,000, Holloman, Connecticut, isn’t technically large enough to have its own homicide department, but on…
Cairo Modern
Four young men, Mahgub Abd al-Da’im, Ali Taha, Ahmad Badir and Ma’mun Radwan, meet to discuss current events in 1930s…
Middling Folk: Three Seas, Three Centuries, One Scots-Irish Family
The author has dedicated this publication to her father, and rightly so. His desire to research and record his family…
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
When I first encountered this book, I was intrigued, but a bit embarrassed: I’d never heard of the Paris flood…
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
The saga of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, began in 1877 when he was just 17 and…
1492: The Year the World Began
Felipe Ferńandez-Armesto’s contention in 1492: The Year the World Began is that in the titular year events occurred that shaped…
Small Wars
Cyprus 1956. The newly promoted Major Hal Treherne is sent to the garrison at Episkopi, where his wife Clara…
Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape
Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape, a new sequel to Pride and Prejudice, opens some years after Elizabeth Bennet has married her…
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