Non-Fiction Reviews
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 2, 2026Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
August 1, 2026In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
Movies
Movie Review: The Informant!
August 1, 2026Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Twelve by William Gladstone
July 31, 2026This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
July 31, 2026The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: 9
July 30, 2026The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
Movies
Movie Review: The September Issue
July 30, 2026From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
Mystery
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
July 30, 2026She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
Fiction Reviews
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
July 30, 2026The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
July 29, 2026Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
July 29, 2026Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
July 29, 2026Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
July 28, 2026Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
July 28, 2026Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
Movies
Movie Review: District 9
July 28, 2026It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
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...
Art & Design
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...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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