For all you romantics out there longing for the days of chivalry, dancing and a beauty standard that didn’t hinge on starvation: forget about it! In Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners, a hilarious new tour through … Continued

With The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (2016), pop-historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, the award-winning biographer of Joseph Stalin and Grigory Potempkin, delivers his richest and most ambitious tome to date. Spanning three centuries and twenty rulers, Montefiore chronicles the rise and fall of Russia’s greatest—and raunchiest—dynasty … Continued