Fiction Reviews
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
June 30, 2026Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
June 29, 2026If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
Fiction Reviews
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
June 29, 2026Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...
Art & Design
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 29, 2026Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
Books
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
June 29, 2026Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
June 28, 2026More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Environment
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
June 28, 2026All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate...
Crime Fiction
Gas City by Loren Estleman
June 28, 2026The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
Biography
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
June 28, 2026Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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...
Science
The Best American Science Writing 2007
June 27, 2026Jonathon Keats’s article from Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Short Stories
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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.
Fiction Reviews
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
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...
Military
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,...
Fiction Reviews
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
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...
True Crime
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...
Religion
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...
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