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Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
March 4, 2025Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
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Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
March 4, 2025More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
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The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
March 3, 2025Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
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Gas City by Loren Estleman
March 3, 2025The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
March 3, 2025All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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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...
Science
The Best American Science Writing 2007
March 2, 2025Jonathon Keats’s article from Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John...
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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
China
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
March 2, 2025Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Crime Fiction
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Curses on You, White Men!
March 1, 2025The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
March 1, 2025Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
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Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns
March 1, 2025"Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their...
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Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Fiction Reviews
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
February 28, 2025And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
Art
The Rock Posters of Rich Black
February 28, 2025A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.
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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....
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What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
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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...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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