Book Reviews

A book documents the history of an influential 1960s British TV music show. Plus, CDs from Solomon Burke, Sensational Country Blues Wonders, Paul Winter, and Felix Hatfield.

Dating adventures and hilarity continue in Catana Chetwynd's second book 'Snug'.

'Voting Is Your Superpower' collects a fascinating series of pro-vote comics from the fifties and sixties.

'The Wintermen III' by Brit Griffin: if you like your fantasy/adventure seasoned with intelligence and compassion this is the story for you.

'The Bladebone' by Ausma Zehanat Khan is a wonderful read and the perfect conclusion to a great series of books.

'First Day Critter Jitters' tells the story of young animals who, like many human kids, are nervous about the first day of school.

A new edition re-orders the sonnets chronologically, shining a new light on Shakespeare the poet. An ideal gift for the English major in your family.

'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke is a wonderful book that will break your heart for the loss it expresses and revive you with the hope it implies.

The first English translation of a book by Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid – a tale of a modern-day Holocaust historian – appears at an opportune time.

Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi from Drawn+Quarterly is a beautiful reprint collecting some of the best issues of the classic kids’s comic. While originally a single-panel cartoon created by comics icon Marjorie Henderson Buell, better known as “Marge,” Lulu evolved into one of the best-known Dell/Golden Key comic book titles …