Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
December 12, 2023Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Fiction Reviews
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
December 12, 2023On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
December 12, 2023No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
December 11, 2023Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
December 11, 2023America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
December 11, 2023Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
December 11, 2023Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
December 10, 2023“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Great Britain
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
December 10, 2023Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
December 10, 2023How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
Politics
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
December 10, 2023President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
December 9, 2023"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
Other
3 Reasons to Kick the Smoking Habit and How to Get Started
December 9, 2023While smoking has been seeing a steady decline across the United States due to a better...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
December 9, 2023"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
December 9, 2023"The Internet, of course, is a huge source of data. Every click and keystroke can be...
Art
X-ray Photographs of David Arky
December 8, 2023Duane Michals expressed it well when he said, “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
December 8, 2023Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Military
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
December 8, 2023Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Best Books
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2008
December 8, 2023CLR writers select the best books of 2008.
Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
February 20, 2025"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art & Design
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
History
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....
History
Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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