Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Biography
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father’s World
June 21, 2026In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
June 21, 2026Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Africa
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
June 21, 2026"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
June 21, 2026By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
June 21, 2026By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Art & Design
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 20, 2026His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
June 19, 2026‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 18, 2026If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Comrade J by Pete Earley
June 18, 2026It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
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...
Art
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...
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...
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Movies
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
September 1, 2026The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
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...
Music
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
After Image
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...
Art
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
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Movies & TV
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
Movies
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
September 7, 2026Music is the heart and soul of New Orleans: Wendell Pierce in a publicity shot for...
The Fourth Wall
Corey Haim Found Dead of Accidental Overdose
August 26, 2026Corey Haim, one of the ’80s brightest teen stars, was found dead aged 38 of an...
The Fourth Wall
What happened to teen movies?!
August 28, 2026“On Wednesdays we wear pink!” (Mean Girls: a frightfully accurate portrayal of peer pressure and conformity.)...
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