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...
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
December 20, 2025Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
December 19, 2025I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
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