Fiction Reviews
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One, Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
May 24, 2026He has taken it upon himself to examine society’s present milieu under the lens of traditional...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Faking It by William Ian Miller
May 24, 2026At turns erudite and droll, it reads like the collaborative effort of Harold Bloom and Dave...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
May 24, 20261916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Death
Mark Harris Discusses A “Natural Way of Burial”
May 24, 2026"Above ground, the local cemetery may look bucolic and natural; below the surface, it serves as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
May 23, 2026So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
History
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
May 23, 2026Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects...
Fiction Reviews
The Works of Russel Kirk
May 23, 2026Throughout his career Dr. Kirk, the only American to earn a degree of doctor of letters...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Fiction Reviews
The Works of Max Crawford
May 22, 2026Being a serious writer in a time when swill by corrupt business tycoons, politicians and not-funny...
Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
May 22, 2026The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Walking It Off – by Doug Peacock
May 22, 2026Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...
Fiction Reviews
Grand Theft by Timothy Watts
May 22, 2026Teddy Clyde has got it all together. The dude’s got a brokerage business out on City...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 21, 2026The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
Vietnam
The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967
May 21, 2026In Lieutenant Morris’ words, “We moved into the woods and within minutes all hell broke loose.”...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 21, 2026Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 21, 2026Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan
May 21, 2026My worry was that this might be another leftist book that glibly made analogies between Israel...
Biography
I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
May 20, 2026Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Biography
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Art
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...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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