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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Fiction Reviews
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
July 27, 2026Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
History
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
July 27, 2026When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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...
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...
Philosophy
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...
Mystery
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...
Great Britain
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Military
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...
Religion
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?...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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
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...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
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
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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