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Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
July 7, 2026"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Vietnam
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
July 5, 2026Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
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The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski
July 5, 2026Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, The Gulf Stream describes and mammoth...
Non-Fiction Reviews
David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
July 5, 2026"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
Disability
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 5, 2026Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
July 5, 2026Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
July 5, 2026"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
July 5, 2026The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Native American
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 5, 2026Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Historical Fiction
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
July 4, 2026Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster
July 4, 2026But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
July 4, 2026The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
July 4, 2026He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
July 3, 2026In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
July 3, 2026Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 3, 2026Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
July 3, 2026Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
July 2, 2026Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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
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
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...
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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...
Politics
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...
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