Stories By David Loftus
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Literary Themes
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 15, 2022These 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
June 20, 2022The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
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Biography
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 15, 2022I’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
June 11, 2022In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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China
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
June 7, 2022"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
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Biography
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
June 2, 2022So 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
June 1, 2022In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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History
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 29, 2022Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
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Biography
I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
May 27, 2022Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
May 19, 2022Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
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