
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...
Dianetics: A Dialogue
January 9, 2026“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...

Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
January 1, 2026The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
December 19, 2025I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Sudden Onset
December 19, 2025From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
December 17, 2025O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...






