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Fiction Reviews
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
July 29, 2022Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
July 29, 2022One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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Food
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
July 29, 2022Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
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Art
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 28, 2022Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Fiction Reviews
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
July 28, 2022A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
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Nature
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
July 28, 2022The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
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Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 28, 2022"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 27, 2022Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
July 27, 2022Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
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Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
July 27, 2022For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
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Fiction Reviews
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
July 27, 2022For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
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Fiction Reviews
Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
July 26, 2022Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
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Mystery
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 26, 2022Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 26, 2022For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
July 26, 2022There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
July 25, 2022After mailing a package of video files and documents to NBC, Cho left for Norris Hall...
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Movies
Who is Rita, What Was She?
July 25, 2022Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
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True Crime
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 25, 2022Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
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Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
July 25, 2022To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
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Art & Design
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 24, 2022Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
November 9, 2023This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
November 30, 2023Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
November 17, 2023A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Military
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
November 7, 2023Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
November 17, 2023The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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True Crime
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
November 14, 2023"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
November 6, 2023I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
November 5, 2023"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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History
Julian The Apostate
November 27, 2023But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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