Archeology
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...
Writers
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...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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?...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 10, 2026These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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