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The Power of Art by Simon Schama
May 26, 2026For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
Religion
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
Fiction Reviews
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
May 26, 2026Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Fiction Reviews
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 25, 2026The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...
Fiction Reviews
The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly
May 25, 2026However, many contemporary English writers retain the essential nature of their culture. While they have, in...
Psychology
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
May 25, 2026Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
May 25, 2026Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
May 24, 2026He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
Fiction Reviews
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One, Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
May 24, 2026He has taken it upon himself to examine society’s present milieu under the lens of traditional...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Faking It by William Ian Miller
May 24, 2026At turns erudite and droll, it reads like the collaborative effort of Harold Bloom and Dave...
Politics
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
May 24, 20261916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
May 24, 2026"Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as...
Science
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
May 23, 2026So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
May 23, 2026Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects...
Fiction Reviews
The Works of Russel Kirk
May 23, 2026Throughout his career Dr. Kirk, the only American to earn a degree of doctor of letters...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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