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Germany
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 8, 2022Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 7, 2022It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 7, 2022Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Medicine
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
August 7, 2022In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
August 7, 2022The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Informant!
August 6, 2022Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
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Movies
Movie Review: 9
August 6, 2022The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
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History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
August 6, 2022Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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Movies
Movie Review: The September Issue
August 6, 2022From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
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Fiction Reviews
The Twelve by William Gladstone
August 5, 2022This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
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Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
August 5, 2022But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
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Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
August 5, 2022Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
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Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
August 5, 2022Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
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Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
August 5, 2022Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
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Fiction Reviews
The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
August 4, 2022The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
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Fiction Reviews
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
August 4, 2022She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
August 4, 2022Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
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Movies
Movie Review: District 9
August 4, 2022It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
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Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
August 3, 2022Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
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Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
August 3, 2022Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 22, 2022Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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History
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 18, 2022Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 21, 2022No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 21, 2022Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
July 19, 2022"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 23, 2022In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Biography
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
July 17, 2022At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
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Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
August 2, 2022Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
August 6, 2022Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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