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Crime Fiction
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 13, 2022She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
August 12, 2022Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...
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Biography
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 12, 2022Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
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Art
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
August 12, 2022The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
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Death
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
August 12, 2022The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 12, 2022The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Maid
August 11, 2022It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
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Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
August 11, 2022She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
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Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
August 11, 2022The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
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Movies
Movie Review: Amelia
August 11, 2022Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
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Fiction Reviews
The Child Thief by Brom
August 10, 2022There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
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Fiction Reviews
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
August 10, 2022As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
August 10, 2022Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
August 10, 2022The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
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Movies
Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
August 9, 2022Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
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Biography
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
August 9, 2022And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 9, 2022Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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Movies
Movie Review: Zombieland
August 9, 2022Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
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Fiction Reviews
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
August 8, 2022The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 8, 2022Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 22, 2022Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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History
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 18, 2022Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 21, 2022No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 21, 2022Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
July 19, 2022"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 23, 2022In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Biography
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
July 17, 2022At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
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Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
August 2, 2022Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
August 6, 2022Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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