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Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
May 27, 2026Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
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Brontë in Brussels
May 27, 2026I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...
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Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
Art
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
May 26, 2026For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
Fiction Reviews
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
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The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
May 26, 2026Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 25, 2026The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...
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The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly
May 25, 2026However, many contemporary English writers retain the essential nature of their culture. While they have, in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
May 25, 2026Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
May 25, 2026Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
May 24, 2026He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
Fiction Reviews
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One, Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
May 24, 2026He has taken it upon himself to examine society’s present milieu under the lens of traditional...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Faking It by William Ian Miller
May 24, 2026At turns erudite and droll, it reads like the collaborative effort of Harold Bloom and Dave...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
May 24, 20261916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
May 24, 2026"Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as...
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Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
May 23, 2026So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
China
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
April 28, 2026And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Television
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 29, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 4, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
May 3, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Family Free Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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The KillingRecap: Off The Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
May 2, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Off the Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
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Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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