Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
August 1, 2026In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
July 31, 2026The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
July 29, 2026Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
July 27, 2026"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
July 26, 2026The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
July 26, 2026Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
July 25, 2026The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...




