Stories By David Loftus
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
November 11, 2023The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
November 6, 2023I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
November 1, 2023In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
October 27, 2023"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
October 20, 2023So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
October 19, 2023In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
October 17, 2023Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
October 15, 2023Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
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Sociology
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
October 6, 2023Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz
October 4, 2023Imagine 32 famous actors looking you straight in the eye and flirting with you. (Marlee Matlin!...