History
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
January 13, 2025The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
January 12, 2025Dr. Fleming argues that since the birth of classical liberalism in the seventeenth century, a century...
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Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
January 12, 2025Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
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Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
January 12, 2025Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
January 12, 2025Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
Biography
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
January 11, 2025Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
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Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
January 11, 2025As childhood gave way to adulthood, I came to the realization that my greatest attraction to...
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Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
January 11, 2025Kornwolf raises the question of whether or not one can endure one’s heritage. We all have...
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In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz
January 11, 2025Imagine 32 famous actors looking you straight in the eye and flirting with you. (Marlee Matlin!...
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
January 10, 2025Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
Politics
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
January 10, 2025Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
January 10, 2025Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
January 10, 2025But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters...
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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
January 10, 2025There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
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Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
January 9, 2025In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
January 9, 2025Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
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Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
January 9, 2025Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Fiction Reviews
Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
January 8, 2025There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...
Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
January 8, 2025The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
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April 21, 2026But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
Movies
Best and Worst Movies of 2012 – The First Half
April 10, 2026The Fourth Wall Presents A Look At Our Five Best and There Worst Movies of the...
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Television
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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House Recap: ‘Everybody Dies’ (Season 8, Episode 22 – Series Finale)
April 28, 2026And now to the issues fans will no doubt be debating for ages to come: Did...
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The Killing Recap: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 19, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: What I Know (Season 2, Episode 13)
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 29, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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The Newsroom Recap: We Just Decided To (Season 1, Episode 1)
April 16, 2026The Newsroom is smart, energetic and definitely going to keep audiences’ attention. Too bad we have...
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The Killing Recap: Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
April 24, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Bulldog (Season 2, Episode 11)
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The Killing Recap: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
April 27, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: 72 Hours (Season 2, Episode 10)
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