Literary Defarge

  Tim Alberta starts  The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory  on the worst day of his life. While he was being interviewed on the Christian ...

  Secrets of the Nile  finds Lady Emily and her husband Colin in Egypt, along with his mother and Katharina, his daughter from a prior relat...

  Minnette Walters couldn't have known. She published The Last Hours  in 2017 and Turn of Midnight  in 201. How could she have known th...

 I've spent far too much time playing Tetris and related games. Why is such a simple game so addictive that as an undergrad, I'd giv...

A few months ago, I was in an online political discussion. Someone brought up how unified we were during WWII to which I said, "Except ...

 In her author's note, Alison Weir says historical records tell us what happened but don't show the conversations or personalities....

 Katherine Howard died before she left her teens and lived in an era where even important women left little record. She wasn't an intell...

I love used books. Besides seeing how cover art and typefaces have changed over the years, they're a good way to find new authors and se...

I love Sharon Kay Penman's sprawling novels which combine medieval politics with the love stories between intelligent and strong willed ...