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Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
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Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Comrade J by Pete Earley
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Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
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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
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
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Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
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Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
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