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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
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
March 30, 2025In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
March 30, 2025The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
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Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
March 30, 2025For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
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Whatever — Whatever?
March 30, 2025One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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Manhattan: School for Scriveners
March 29, 2025For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
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The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
March 29, 2025Readers 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
March 29, 2025Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
March 29, 2025A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Agriculture
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
March 28, 2025Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
March 28, 2025The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
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The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
March 28, 2025Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
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How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
March 27, 2025Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
March 27, 2025For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
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Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
March 27, 2025Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
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Castle by J. Robert Lennon
March 27, 2025For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
March 27, 2025For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
March 26, 2025Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
March 26, 2025There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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