Non-Fiction Reviews
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
March 26, 2025After mailing a package of video files and documents to NBC, Cho left for Norris Hall...
Politics
Who is Rita, What Was She?
March 26, 2025Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
March 25, 2025Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Fiction Reviews
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
March 25, 2025For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
March 25, 2025To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
African American
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
March 25, 2025When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 23, 2025Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
March 23, 2025In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
March 23, 2025Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
March 23, 2025In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
March 23, 2025There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
March 22, 2025Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 22, 2025Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
March 22, 2025Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
March 22, 2025No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Fiction Reviews
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
March 21, 2025On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
March 21, 2025America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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,...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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