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A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
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Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
April 2, 2025When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
April 2, 2025The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
April 2, 2025The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Politics
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Fiction Reviews
Rain Gods By James Lee Burke
April 1, 2025Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
April 1, 2025The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
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The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
April 1, 2025It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Religion
The Second Book of the Tao
March 31, 2025The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
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Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
March 31, 2025Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
March 31, 2025The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Fiction Reviews
Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
March 30, 2025In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
March 30, 2025The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
March 30, 2025For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
March 30, 2025One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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Manhattan: School for Scriveners
March 29, 2025For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
Fiction Reviews
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
March 29, 2025Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
March 9, 2025Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
History
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 22, 2025Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
March 18, 2025Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
March 6, 2025"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
March 23, 2025In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Nature
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
March 19, 2025"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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