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David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
July 5, 2026"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
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Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 5, 2026Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
July 5, 2026Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
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Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
July 5, 2026"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
July 5, 2026The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Military
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 5, 2026Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
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The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
July 4, 2026Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
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Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster
July 4, 2026But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting...
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Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
July 4, 2026The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
July 4, 2026He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
July 3, 2026In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
July 3, 2026Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
Russia
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 3, 2026Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
Native American
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
July 3, 2026Gold, jewels – that was what the new world promised and that was what the Spanish...
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The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
July 2, 2026Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
Military
Bracing For Armageddon? by William R. Clark
July 2, 2026Asahara amassed hundreds of million dollars and sent agents to far-flung destinations to ferret out information...
Non-Fiction Reviews
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
July 2, 2026An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
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A Boy’s View of a World War
July 2, 2026The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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Being Kidnapped at Knifepoint Is Not Enough to Change David Lida’s Love for Mexico City
July 1, 2026"But with neoliberal governments, an unjust distribution of wealth is becoming the norm. Even in wealthy...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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