Biography
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 19, 2026Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
July 19, 2026To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
July 19, 2026When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Art & Design
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
July 18, 2026In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
July 18, 2026Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 17, 2026There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 17, 2026Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 17, 2026Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Economics
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 15, 2026No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Historical Fiction
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
July 15, 2026On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 15, 2026America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 15, 2026“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Fiction Reviews
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 14, 2026Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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...
Art & Design
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...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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...
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
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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