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...
Fiction Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
March 9, 2025Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
March 9, 2025Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
March 7, 2025Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
March 7, 2025Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark
March 7, 2025Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information...
Biography
A Boy’s View of a World War
March 7, 2025The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
March 7, 2025An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
Mexico
Being Kidnapped at Knifepoint Is Not Enough to Change David Lida’s Love for Mexico City
March 7, 2025"But with neoliberal governments, an unjust distribution of wealth is becoming the norm. Even in wealthy...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something
March 7, 2025"I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at...
Education
HIGHER EDUCATION, PAST AND PRESENT: IN THE EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH
March 6, 2025HIGHER EDUCATION, PAST AND PRESENT: IN THE EAST, WEST, AND SOUTH John Biggs’s Changing Universities: A...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
History
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Imag(in)ing America
March 5, 2025The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
March 5, 2025Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
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Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
March 5, 2025Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Japan
Einstein in Japan
March 5, 2025The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
March 4, 2025If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
March 4, 2025Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...
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,...
History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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...
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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 Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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