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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
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Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
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Biography
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
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Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
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Gaia
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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...
Theatre
Casanova by Ian Kelly
July 10, 2026Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Science
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 9, 2026The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Art & Design
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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What’s Killing the Honeybees?
July 8, 2026"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Fiction Reviews
Driftless by David Rhodes
July 8, 2026In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
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School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
July 8, 2026The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Sex
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
History
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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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...
Photography
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
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Art & Design
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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