History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
June 27, 2026Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
June 26, 2026Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
History
Curses on You, White Men!
June 26, 2026The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
June 26, 2026Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns
June 25, 2026"Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their...
Music
The Rock Posters of Rich Black
June 25, 2026A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.
Humor
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
June 25, 2026And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
June 25, 2026And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
June 24, 2026But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
June 23, 2026"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
June 23, 2026Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
June 23, 2026This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
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Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
June 23, 2026Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
June 23, 2026My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Mystery
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Caribbean
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...
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,...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Science
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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