Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
January 30, 2026It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
Dianetics: A Dialogue
January 9, 2026“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...
Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
January 6, 2026Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
January 1, 2026The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
December 28, 2025A sampling of new or recent books on the Civil War suggests that this bygone conflict...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 2)
December 27, 2025On a sultry summer afternoon, 150 years ago, a young man named Strong Vincent changed the...
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Blind Boys, Berkeley Blue, Phone Hacks and Wozniak
December 25, 2025The earliest phone phreak I’ve been able to identify was a young man who went by...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 3)
December 23, 2025The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
Watchman, What of the Night?
December 20, 2025The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
December 20, 2025Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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