EDITORIAL REVIEW: *What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?* **Perfect Match** In the course of her everyday work, career-dri...
Review''A vivid 11-day account of a World War II holiday . . . A master chronicler, Weintraub's moody, intensively researched play- by-play narrative traces the final days of 1941....
The first biography of The New Yorker's influential, powerful, and controversial film critic.A decade after her death, Pauline Kael remains the most important figure in film critic...
Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the tr...
Palestine Inside Out Sheds Light on the most important—but also the least visible—aspects of life under occupation: the permits, passes, curfews, closures, “sterile roads,” and “se...
From Publishers WeeklyLieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in i...
SUMMARY: Ian Wigby is about to find out that he is a very special boy. Along the southern coast of England, atop the White Cliffs of Dover, stands a castle. And at that castle's ol...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ten years ago, inhabitants of the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victor i...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: High in the Swiss Alps, a man hunts respectability with all the cunning that made him Europe's most ruthless criminal. Nothing is to stand in Ernst Stavro Blofeld...