THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the ...

One of the greatest figures in Roman history, Gaius Julius Caesar has been popularised time and again across various works of art and literature. Such was the popularity of the military figure that ...

In addition to his military and political achievements, in his lifetime Caesar (100-44 B.C.) was a rather noted author and scholar, considered an outstanding stylist, producing works on the Latin ...

We have entered the season of the campaign book, when presidential hopefuls put their life stories between two covers and peddle them as narratives explaining why they are best-suited to steer the ...

This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...

FREEDOM, FAREWELL!—Phyllis Bentley —Macmillan ($2.50). HAIL, CAESAR!—Fletcher Pratt—Smith & Haas ($3.50). With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns, Phyllis ...

In Sam Kean's previous nonfiction books, The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist's Thumb, the bestselling pop-science writer tackled the topics of the periodic table and DNA, respectively. His new ...

THE LAST ASSASSIN: THE HUNT FOR THE KILLERS OF JULIUS CAESAR by Peter Stothard (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £20, 274 pp) It wasn’t a mere street fortune-teller who warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of ...

Looking for something to do today? Agenda‘s got you covered. HoZac Records has specialized in releasing skuzzy local garage rock and punk for damn near a decade, and now, in a fairly unprecedented ...