Stories By David Loftus
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Books
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
June 23, 2020There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
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Fiction Reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
June 20, 2020What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
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Death
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
June 14, 2020The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
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Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
June 7, 2020Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
June 6, 2020"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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Art
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
June 2, 2020Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Death
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
May 25, 2020"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
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Environment
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
May 24, 2020But Pearce knows more fundamental rethinking will be necessary to keep our species going. “The worst...
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Literary Themes
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
May 23, 2020These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
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Environment
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
May 5, 2020The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
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