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Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
November 17, 2021Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....
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Book Review: The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
November 12, 2021The title The Book of My Lives is apt: rather than presenting a seamless memoir, Hemon...
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Civil War 150 – A Readers’ Guide (Part 1)
November 8, 2021A 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)
November 7, 2021On 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
November 6, 2021The 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)
November 2, 2021The most notorious atrocity of the Draft Riots was the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum,...
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Watchman, What of the Night?
October 31, 2021The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
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The Persecution of P.G. Wodehouse
October 30, 2021Was P.G.Wodehouse, the legendary master of farce, party to Nazi propaganda during World War II? This...
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A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
October 30, 2021“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
October 30, 2021I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
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