Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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The Second Book of the Tao
December 21, 2023The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
December 21, 2023It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
December 21, 2023Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
December 21, 2023The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
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Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
December 20, 2023In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
December 20, 2023This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
December 20, 2023For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
December 20, 2023The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
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Manhattan: School for Scriveners
December 19, 2023For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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Whatever — Whatever?
December 19, 2023One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
December 19, 2023Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
December 19, 2023Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Environment
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
December 18, 2023Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
Fiction Reviews
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
December 18, 2023A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Nature
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
December 18, 2023The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
December 18, 2023"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
December 17, 2023Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
December 17, 2023For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
December 17, 2023Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
March 9, 2025Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
February 20, 2025"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art & Design
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
March 6, 2025"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
March 2, 2025From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
History
Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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