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Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
February 26, 2025Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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Biography
My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
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Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
February 25, 2025I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
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Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
February 25, 2025Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
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Politics
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
February 25, 2025"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
February 25, 2025By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
February 24, 2025By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Art & Design
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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Writers
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
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Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
February 23, 2025‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
February 23, 2025His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
February 23, 2025Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
February 22, 2025If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
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Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Comrade J by Pete Earley
February 22, 2025It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
February 22, 2025It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
February 14, 2025This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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True Crime
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
February 20, 2025"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
February 10, 2025"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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Movies
Family Values
January 31, 2025Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
February 5, 2025In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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Theatre
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
February 4, 2025The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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