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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
March 20, 2025Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Biography
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
March 20, 2025“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
March 20, 2025Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Biography
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Politics
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
March 20, 2025President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
March 19, 2025"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
March 19, 2025While smoking has been seeing a steady decline across the United States due to a better...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
March 19, 2025"The Internet, of course, is a huge source of data. Every click and keystroke can be...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
March 18, 2025"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
Art
X-ray Photographs of David Arky
March 18, 2025Duane 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
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
March 18, 2025Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2008
March 17, 2025CLR writers select the best books of 2008.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
March 17, 2025If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
March 17, 2025But Pearce knows more fundamental rethinking will be necessary to keep our species going. “The worst...
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Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
March 16, 2025At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
March 16, 2025So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
March 16, 2025That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
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...
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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...
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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