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Israel
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
May 22, 2022In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still...
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Biography
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 21, 2022This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
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Biography
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 21, 2022Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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Biography
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 21, 2022The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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Crime Fiction
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 21, 2022In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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Biography
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
May 20, 2022Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
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Fiction Reviews
The Nimrod Flipout – by Etgar Keret
May 20, 2022You know how sometimes you’ll be having dinner with a woman and then, as the sun...
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Fiction Reviews
Night Swimming – by Robin Schwarz
May 20, 2022What would you do if you went to your doctor for a routine check up only...
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History
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
May 20, 2022Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
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Biography
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
May 20, 2022Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
May 20, 2022Dr. Fleming argues that since the birth of classical liberalism in the seventeenth century, a century...
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History
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 19, 2022The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
May 19, 2022Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
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Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
May 19, 2022Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
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Biography
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 19, 2022Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Biography
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
May 19, 2022Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
May 18, 2022As childhood gave way to adulthood, I came to the realization that my greatest attraction to...
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Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
May 18, 2022Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
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Fiction Reviews
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
May 17, 2022Kornwolf raises the question of whether or not one can endure one’s heritage. We all have...
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Biography
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 17, 2022Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
September 10, 2023But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
September 28, 2023So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
September 19, 2023And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
September 8, 2023A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Lady of the Lake’ (Season 2, Episode 9)
August 30, 2023That which will be given to Freya must be stolen from Arthur, and so Merlin goes...
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Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
September 8, 2023Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...
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The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
September 14, 2023A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
September 22, 2023Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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Merlin Recap: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
September 6, 2023At first glance it seems absolutely obvious what is going on here: to whit, some pretty...
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Merlin Recap: ‘Lancelot and Guinevere’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
September 7, 2023One of the real points of interest in Merlin is watching the way the show takes...
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