Non-Fiction Reviews
Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
June 18, 2026"In waking we tend to think The Dream vanishes, evaporates in daylight like morning dew on...
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Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
June 18, 2026It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
June 18, 2026In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
June 17, 2026I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Liberal Fascism? Jonah Goldberg Explains
June 17, 2026"If I had to pick a single overall theme in the book, I would say it’s...
Health and Wellness
7 Hacks You Can Do to Get & Stay Motivated to Lose Weight
June 17, 2026How to Get Motivated to Lose Weight in 2019 7 Hacks You Can Do to Get...
Medicine
The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund
June 17, 2026Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left...
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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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Four Shipwrecked Castaways Cross Sixteenth Century America
June 16, 2026"But at that point most of the expeditionaries perished as a result of Indian attacks, illness,...
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Fiction Reviews
True Grandeur is a Hollywood Novel for the 21st Century.
June 16, 2026True Grandeur, written by Hollywood actor, writer, and filmmaker Cal R. Barnes, has generated near-universal acclaim...
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Culture and Heritage
What coronavirus costs to the Italian cultural heritage.
June 16, 2026Given that Italy’s is generally considered the world’s richest cultural heritage, maintenance of its historic monuments...
Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
June 16, 2026Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
Performing Arts
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
June 15, 2026Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Fiction Reviews
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 15, 2026In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
Thrillers
The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke
June 15, 2026Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 14, 2026In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
Sports
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
June 14, 2026Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
Books
Murdering Miss Austen
June 14, 2026Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
June 14, 2026The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
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
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Historical Fiction
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art
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...
African American
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...
Biography
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...
Russia
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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