
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
July 18, 2026In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 17, 2026Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 17, 2026Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 15, 2026No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 15, 2026America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 15, 2026“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
July 14, 2026Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
July 13, 2026President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
July 12, 2026"The Internet, of course, is a huge source of data. Every click and keystroke can be...





