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Art
30,000 Years of Art
June 26, 2022‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Australia
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 25, 2022His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Egypt
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 25, 2022Reading 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
June 25, 2022If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
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History
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 25, 2022The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
June 25, 2022Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Biography
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 24, 2022It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
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Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
June 24, 2022It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
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Mythology
Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
June 24, 2022"In waking we tend to think The Dream vanishes, evaporates in daylight like morning dew on...
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Italy
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
June 24, 2022I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
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Health and Wellness
7 Hacks You Can Do to Get & Stay Motivated to Lose Weight
June 23, 2022How to Get Motivated to Lose Weight in 2019 7 Hacks You Can Do to Get...
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History
Liberal Fascism? Jonah Goldberg Explains
June 23, 2022"If I had to pick a single overall theme in the book, I would say it’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 23, 2022"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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France
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 23, 2022In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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Fiction Reviews
True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
June 23, 2022True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
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Medicine
The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund
June 22, 2022Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left...
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Architecture
Photographs from Havana Deco
June 22, 2022A photographic essay: Art Deco in Havana, Cuba.
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Culture and Heritage
What coronavirus costs to the Italian cultural heritage.
June 22, 2022Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
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History
Four Shipwrecked Castaways Cross Sixteenth Century America
June 22, 2022"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...
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Fiction Reviews
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 22, 2022In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
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History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 16, 2022Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Horror
Family Values
June 5, 2022Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
June 1, 2022In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 11, 2022In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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History
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 25, 2022The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
June 3, 2022Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
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Biography
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 15, 2022I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Biography
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
June 9, 2022The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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Fiction Reviews
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
June 4, 2022This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
June 7, 2022"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
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