Fiction Reviews
Stewball – by Peter Bowen
May 18, 2026I’ll begin by saying that I enjoyed immensely the first seven or eight novels in Peter...
Non-Fiction Reviews
September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus
May 18, 2026For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team...
Fiction Reviews
Temping – by Kirby Olson
May 18, 2026Milhouse Moot, the narrator of Kirby Olson’s autobiographical comic-allegorical novel, is severely depersonalized, rendering the story...
Economics
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic – by Chalmers Johnson
May 18, 2026Back in 2008 the United States had what was called a “California style” referendum. Empire or...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall
May 18, 2026Who are the Stans? What are the Stans? Where are the Stans and what in the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
May 17, 2026Americans would be well advised to learn about Iran’s culture and tragic recent history before our...
Fiction Reviews
Red – by Ted Dekker
May 17, 2026In Red, The Heroic Defense, Dekker’s brilliant utilization of Christian doctrine and pagan myth provides a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 17, 2026With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Madness – by James Crumley
May 17, 2026No one else tells the stories like Crumley, has his voice, his confidence or absolute fearlessness...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
May 17, 2026McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental – by Rex Johnson, Jr.
May 16, 2026One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
May 16, 2026Money dominates far greater a percentage of admissions than colleges—who are desperate to boost endowments to...
Fiction Reviews
Present Value – By Sabin Willett
May 16, 2026If Present Value was being pitched as a film one might describe it as Bonfire of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Profilers, Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
May 16, 2026The science of criminal profiling has exploded on the public consciousness following the publication of Thomas...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
May 16, 2026The good news is that the assault on fortress academe has had initial success; the walls...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
May 15, 2026In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Travel
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 15, 2026The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 15, 2026Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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