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FOR CATHOLIC READERS, the biggest book of the year is a late arrival--and potentially an ideal Christmas gift. By the time these recommendations appear, Light of the World (Ignatius) should [...]

IT WOULD NOT BE comme il faut for me, the publisher of Encounter Books, to recommend any books published by Encounter. So I will forbear to recommend Athwart History: Half [...]

NEVER TRUST THOSE who recommend Shakespeare. Never believe them when they piously intone that you ought to read Dante. Turn quickly and walk away from those who praise Homer. Wash [...]

ANYONE WHO APPRECIATES brilliant food and larger-than-life personalities will love journalist Bill Buford's Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in [...]

A mere 18 months after Sam Tanenhaus wrote in the New Republic 'The Conservative Movement Is Dead' look at this from young Jonathan Chait in the very same liberal organ [...]

FOR AN EXQUISITE LOOK at appeasement in all its squalid forms, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and the Roots of Appeasement (Penguin) by the great British historian Ian Kershaw. [...]

THIS PAST YEAR I was kept very busy editing The American Spectator and writing a book, After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Victory, which came out this past April. [...]

IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND the people and the ideas behind the American Revolution, and you haven't read the work of MIT historian Pauline Maier, then your understanding is incomplete. [...]

In the Gulf it is the corporations against the birds, and birder Matthew Rothschild can do nothing: So ever since the BP oil spill began, I've been sickened by the [...]