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Non-Fiction Reviews
September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus
May 25, 2022For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall
May 24, 2022Who are the Stans? What are the Stans? Where are the Stans and what in the...
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History
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
May 24, 2022Americans would be well advised to learn about Iran’s culture and tragic recent history before our...
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History
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 24, 2022With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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Fiction Reviews
Red – by Ted Dekker
May 24, 2022In Red, The Heroic Defense, Dekker’s brilliant utilization of Christian doctrine and pagan myth provides a...
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Crime Fiction
The Right Madness – by James Crumley
May 23, 2022No one else tells the stories like Crumley, has his voice, his confidence or absolute fearlessness...
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Biography
Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
May 23, 2022McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in...
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Nature
The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental – by Rex Johnson, Jr.
May 23, 2022One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a...
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Education
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
May 23, 2022Money dominates far greater a percentage of admissions than colleges—who are desperate to boost endowments to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Profilers, Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
May 22, 2022The science of criminal profiling has exploded on the public consciousness following the publication of Thomas...
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History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
May 22, 2022The good news is that the assault on fortress academe has had initial success; the walls...
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Crime Fiction
Present Value – By Sabin Willett
May 22, 2022If Present Value was being pitched as a film one might describe it as Bonfire of...
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Israel
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
May 22, 2022In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still...
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Biography
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 21, 2022This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
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Biography
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 21, 2022Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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Biography
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 21, 2022The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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Crime Fiction
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 21, 2022In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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Biography
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
May 20, 2022Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
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Fiction Reviews
The Nimrod Flipout – by Etgar Keret
May 20, 2022You know how sometimes you’ll be having dinner with a woman and then, as the sun...
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Fiction Reviews
Night Swimming – by Robin Schwarz
May 20, 2022What would you do if you went to your doctor for a routine check up only...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 15, 2022That 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: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 12, 2022So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Blog-Video Games
The Finale Solution – Three of Them, Actually.
May 11, 2022End Errors: Game, Postscript For the last month or so, I’ve been talking about how terrible...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
May 4, 2022And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 14, 2022Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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Nature
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 29, 2022A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 12, 2022A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 16, 2022The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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