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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
June 23, 2026"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
June 23, 2026Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
June 23, 2026This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
June 23, 2026Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
June 23, 2026My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Crime Fiction
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father’s World
June 21, 2026In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Topics
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
June 21, 2026Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Russia
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
June 21, 2026"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
June 21, 2026By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
June 21, 2026By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
History
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Great Britain
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Sex
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
June 20, 2026His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
June 19, 2026‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
History
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
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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
Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
September 9, 2026Ironically, while Mr. Guérineau has indicated a desire to infuse France’s museums with fresh blood and...
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...
The Fourth Wall
Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply
September 15, 2026Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American...
After Image
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
September 18, 2026In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
Art & Design
Art Review: Kurt, at the Seattle Art Museum, Explores Kurt Cobain’s Influence on Contemporary Artists
September 17, 2026Nearby, Jeffry Mitchell’s portrait as Kurt is arguably the hidden gem of the exhibit. Self-Portrait as...
Art
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
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
September 13, 2026Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
September 18, 2026While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
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