Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
July 27, 2026"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
July 26, 2026The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
July 26, 2026Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
July 25, 2026The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Crime Fiction
Rain Gods By James Lee Burke
July 25, 2026Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
History
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
July 25, 2026The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
July 25, 2026Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Biography
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
July 24, 2026It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
July 24, 2026The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
July 24, 2026The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
July 24, 2026This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
July 24, 2026The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
Fiction Reviews
Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
July 24, 2026In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
July 23, 2026For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
July 23, 2026For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
July 23, 2026One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
July 23, 2026Readers who know Tanya Huff from her Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 22, 2026Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Fiction Reviews
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
July 22, 2026A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
The Fourth Wall
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
After Image
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art & Design
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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