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Gas City by Loren Estleman
June 28, 2026The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
June 28, 2026Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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
The Best American Science Writing 2007
June 27, 2026Jonathon Keats’s article from Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
June 27, 2026Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
June 26, 2026Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
June 26, 2026The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
June 26, 2026Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns
June 25, 2026"Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their...
Art
The Rock Posters of Rich Black
June 25, 2026A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.
Humor
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
June 25, 2026And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
June 25, 2026And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
June 24, 2026But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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...
Business
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
June 23, 2026"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
June 23, 2026Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
June 23, 2026This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Historical Fiction
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
African American
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Russia
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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