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The Stranger by Max Frei
July 24, 2026The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
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The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
July 24, 2026The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
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Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
July 24, 2026In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
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Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
July 23, 2026For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
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Manhattan: School for Scriveners
July 23, 2026For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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Whatever — Whatever?
July 23, 2026One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
July 23, 2026Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 22, 2026Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
July 22, 2026A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
July 22, 2026Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
July 21, 2026The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
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The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
July 21, 2026Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
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Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
July 21, 2026Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
Crime Fiction
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
July 21, 2026For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 21, 2026For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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Castle by J. Robert Lennon
July 20, 2026For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
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The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 20, 2026Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
July 20, 2026There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art & Design
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
Mystery
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 10, 2026These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
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