Stories By David Loftus
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...
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
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
February 5, 2025In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
February 1, 2025"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
January 25, 2025So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
January 24, 2025In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...




