My fourteenth review is up on the Best British Biographies website! Please enjoy with my compliments.

My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview the distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker about his new biography of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Enjoy!

A family discovers an Emperor penguin in their fridge. The very large penguin decides to stick around and continue being its penguin self.

I just read Katherine Dacey's review for this and it sounds weird and fun, so I'll try to remember to give it a shot sometime soon.

My sixteenth podcast -- an interview with Patricia Buckley Ebrey about her biography of the Emperor Huizong - has been posted on the New Books Network website. There's a funny backstory to this one that I won't bore you with -- just give it a listen if you're interested.