Defining marriage and adultery is tricky, and it was even trickier in the 1800s. In the heady but colorful "Unfaithful", Carol Faulkner gives the history of American marriage reformers. These rebels and thinkers, along with some... Read More

"The Soledad Children" is a painful legal history from the not-so-distant past, when biased testing and cultural segregation were the rule, rather than the exception. Marty Glick and Maurice Jourdane’s "The Soledad Children" is the... Read More

"Lions and Tigers and Cong" is a war memoir with literary flourishes. Theodore Wild’s "Lions and Tigers and Cong" is a bracing firsthand account of the grunt’s life during America’s long war in Vietnam. In 1966, Wild was an average... Read More

Throughout the ages, humans have always found ingenious ways to kill each other, but a bloodletting milestone was surely reached when the great powers of the classical world—the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, et... Read More

Betrothals, betrayals, and battles both domestic and political are the order of the day in Rosalind K. Marshall’s intriguing history "Scottish Queens, 1034-1714". From the mysterious but only possibly murderous Lady Macbeth to the hot... Read More

Nicholas Buccola’s "The Fire Is upon Us" is a riveting, expansive companion text to a historic debate that swept the nation. On February 18th, 1965, two high-profile thinkers met to discuss a pressing question: “Is the American Dream... Read More

In 1902, at twenty-six, Rainer Maria Rilke visited Paris for the first time, drawn by his perception—he was not alone—of France as the consummate home of the artist. He sought out Auguste Rodin and, over the course of many years, the... Read More