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The Nimrod Flipout – by Etgar Keret
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My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
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Night Swimming – by Robin Schwarz
May 14, 2026What would you do if you went to your doctor for a routine check up only...
History
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 14, 2026The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
History
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
May 13, 2026Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
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May 13, 2026Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
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The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
May 12, 2026Dr. Fleming argues that since the birth of classical liberalism in the seventeenth century, a century...
Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 12, 2026Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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May 12, 2026Kornwolf raises the question of whether or not one can endure one’s heritage. We all have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
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In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz
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Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
May 11, 2026Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
May 11, 2026Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...
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May 10, 2026Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
Israel
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May 10, 2026There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
May 10, 2026But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters...
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House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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