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Classics
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
October 21, 2021According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The...
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History
Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
October 21, 2021You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his...
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History
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
October 21, 2021By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
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Classics
The Collector by John Fowles
October 20, 2021Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
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Nature
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, Judith E. Moores
October 20, 2021How do we understand the natural forces that literally shape our world? How, over time have...
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History
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
October 20, 2021Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Fiction Reviews
Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
October 20, 2021Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”...
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History
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
October 19, 2021No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
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Biography
Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet
October 19, 2021Naturally, the publishing of this book complete with its intrigue, loose morals, and the real citizens’...
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Nature
Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection by George Black
October 19, 2021Some years ago, back in the days of its relative anonymity, fly fishing was considered an...
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Architecture
Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight, Denver Art Museum
April 19, 2020But if there’s one form of architecture that has come to embody our society’s conflicted relationship...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘War’ (Season 2, Episode 16)
April 17, 2020Finally, Mike reveals that that he never went to Harvard. Rachel slaps him across the face,...
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Gay and Lesbian
Happy Birthday, NC-17!
July 7, 2020The basics of the MPAA’s rating system (from here). Oh, NC-17. You’re like that friend who’s...
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Movies
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
July 9, 2020Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
April 19, 2020But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Parents’ (Season 8, Episode 6)
August 7, 2021We open at a suburban birthday party, where a teenaged clown is failing to keep a...
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History
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
October 8, 2021"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘Normandy’ (Season 2, Episode 15)
April 17, 2020Harvey realizes that there is evidence that the company accused of discriminating against female employees promoted...
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Movies & TV
Suits Recap: ‘He’s Back’ (Season 2, Episode 14)
April 17, 2020Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) was under professional and personal threat in Suits’ most recent episode, “He’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
April 16, 2020Meanwhile, every billion dollars spent on the supremely misguided attempt to revivify the nuclear industry is...
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