Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...
Book Review: Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon by Martin Kemp
September 30, 2025The Vietnam War had been shredding bodies and hopes for so long that it hardly seemed...
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
September 23, 2025David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...




