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The Ice-Cold Heaven
In 1914, in spite of impending war, King George V gives the go-ahead for Irishman Sir Ernest Shackleton, expedition commander…
The Little Tokyo Informant
Editors' choice
September 1941, and J. Edgar Hoover is preoccupied with using Hollywood to promote the image of the FBI. To this…
The Prince
The first in a planned series, The Tinieblas Trilogy, The Prince is based on Machiavelli’s treatise with the same title.…
Daniel Stein, Interpreter: A Novel in Documents
The phenomenal story of Holocaust survivor Oswald Rufeisen is fictionalized in Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter. Rufeisen was able to save…
I Am Venus
The life of famous artist Diego Velazquez and the hypocritical mores of 17th-century Spain are brought to life by the…
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool,” wrote Fitzgerald in his famous…
Candlemoth
I approached Candlemoth with some apprehension. Its framing device is the story of a man on Death Row in 1982,…
The Royal Physician’s Visit
In 1768 a magnetic, handsome German physician named Struensee became royal physician to King Christian VII of Denmark. Struensee was…
Wolves of the North
The fifth entry in distinguished classicist and military historian Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series sees the hero Ballista on…
I, Hogarth
Renowned artist William Hogarth, whose paintings and engravings illustrated the unfortunate and decadent lives of 18th-century London residents, is born…
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