Stories By David Loftus
Non-Fiction Reviews
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
April 21, 2025There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
Fiction Reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
April 19, 2025What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
April 13, 2025The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
April 3, 2025Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
Writers
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
April 3, 2025"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
March 29, 2025Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
March 18, 2025"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
February 16, 2025The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...