Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
August 23, 2025All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
Book Review: Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
August 20, 2025Except for a (thankfully) brief, unscientific use of Google metrics, Orr beautifully shares instances of why...
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
August 19, 2025But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Book Review: Bird Cloud by Annie Proulx
August 12, 2025Place, in literature, is often the most complex of characters, boasting variable backdrops with tones and...
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
August 4, 2025It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
July 31, 2025X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
Book Review: In the Blink of an Eye by Michael Waltrip
July 28, 2025On the last lap, Earnhardt crashed, dying shortly thereafter. The race winner, Michael Waltrip, was celebrating...




