History
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
February 27, 2025But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
February 27, 2025"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
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Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
February 27, 2025This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Politics
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
February 26, 2025Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
February 26, 2025Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
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Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
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Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
February 25, 2025I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
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Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
February 25, 2025Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
China
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
February 25, 2025"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
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Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
February 25, 2025By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
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The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
February 24, 2025By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
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American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Art
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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30,000 Years of Art
February 23, 2025‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
February 23, 2025His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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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...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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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