Non-Fiction Reviews
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
March 17, 2025But Pearce knows more fundamental rethinking will be necessary to keep our species going. “The worst...
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Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
March 16, 2025At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
March 16, 2025So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
March 16, 2025That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Literary Themes
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
March 16, 2025These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gaia
March 15, 2025‘Can there have been any more inspiring vision this century than that of the Earth from...
Military
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
March 15, 2025"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
History
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Fiction Reviews
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Food
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
March 14, 2025"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Fiction Reviews
Driftless by David Rhodes
March 13, 2025In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
March 13, 2025It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
March 13, 2025The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Short Stories
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
March 13, 2025The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
March 12, 2025Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
March 12, 2025"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
March 9, 2025Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Photography
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
February 20, 2025"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Science
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
March 6, 2025"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
March 2, 2025From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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