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Fiction Reviews
Driftless by David Rhodes
December 5, 2023In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
December 4, 2023It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
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Nature
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
December 4, 2023"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
December 4, 2023The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
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Fiction Reviews
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
December 4, 2023Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
December 3, 2023Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
December 3, 2023The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski
December 3, 2023Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, The Gulf Stream describes and mammoth...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
December 3, 2023"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
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Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
December 3, 2023Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
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Fiction Reviews
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
December 2, 2023Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
December 2, 2023"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
December 2, 2023"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
December 2, 2023The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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Native American
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
December 1, 2023Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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Fiction Reviews
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
December 1, 2023Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster
December 1, 2023But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
December 1, 2023The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
December 1, 2023In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
November 30, 2023He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
November 9, 2023This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
November 30, 2023Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
November 17, 2023A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
November 7, 2023Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
November 17, 2023The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
November 14, 2023"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
November 6, 2023I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Religion
Julian The Apostate
November 27, 2023But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Mystery
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
November 8, 2023A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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