Well, Yeah: Jeffrey A. Auerbach‘s Imperial Boredom

Behind the Scenes: D’Weston Haywood’s Let Us Make Men

Historical Fantasy: A “New” Genre in K.J. Parker’s Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Not His Best Work: John Keegan’s The American Civil War

Constructing the Ivory Tower: Julie Reuben’s Making of the Modern University

A Hoard of Knowledge: Max Adams’ King in the North

Too Grand a Scope: Diane Sommerville’s Aberration of Mind

Too Little, Too Late: TNT’s I Am the Night

Interpreting the Big Easy: To Complicate or not to Complicate?