book reviews

Our war with invasive species has been as futile as the war on drugs. Witness the 30,000 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades.

The new memoir from Glenn Gould Prize winner Philip Glass knits together his pilgrim narratives

Meghan Daum’s book explores the reasons for not having children—most decent, all human.

Jane Urquhart’s eighth novel is a gorgeously written, virtuosic weaving of time, place and characters connected in profound ways

American Warlord is required reading for human rights advocates, even if it occasionally tumbles into laborious minutiae, writes reviewer Michael Fraiman

A new memoir details one man’s decision to leave an ultra-conservative strain of Hasidic Judaism for the modern world

There is no surefire way to be rid of the scourge of bed bugs; there’s a reason we use the term ‘pest control’ and not ‘pest annihilation’

In his book, Hanson asks us to consider something as seemingly mundane as seeds for the complex marvel that it is

There are no heroes in Lehane’s universe: The good guys are usually merely trying to make the best choice from an array of horrible options.

A review of Scott Carney’s A Death on Diamond Mountain