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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...
Thrillers
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
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
July 8, 2026The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Psychology
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Short Stories
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
July 7, 2026Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Nature
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...
Fiction Reviews
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 5, 2026Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Balkans
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
Military
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Art
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
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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