Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
June 23, 2026Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
June 23, 2026My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Crime Fiction
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father’s World
June 21, 2026In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
June 21, 2026Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
June 21, 2026"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
June 21, 2026By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
Great Britain
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
June 21, 2026By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Writers
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 20, 2026His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
June 19, 2026‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Westerns
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 18, 2026If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 18, 2026It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Photography
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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