Education
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden
May 16, 2026Money dominates far greater a percentage of admissions than colleges—who are desperate to boost endowments to...
Fiction Reviews
Present Value – By Sabin Willett
May 16, 2026If Present Value was being pitched as a film one might describe it as Bonfire of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Profilers, Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
May 16, 2026The science of criminal profiling has exploded on the public consciousness following the publication of Thomas...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
May 16, 2026The good news is that the assault on fortress academe has had initial success; the walls...
Israel
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
May 15, 2026In 1985 I traveled to the United States for a lecture tour. I was then still...
Crime Fiction
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
True Crime
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 15, 2026The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 15, 2026Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
Fiction Reviews
The Nimrod Flipout – by Etgar Keret
May 14, 2026You know how sometimes you’ll be having dinner with a woman and then, as the sun...
History
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
May 14, 2026Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
May 14, 2026Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
Fiction Reviews
Night Swimming – by Robin Schwarz
May 14, 2026What would you do if you went to your doctor for a routine check up only...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 14, 2026The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
May 13, 2026Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
May 13, 2026Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
May 12, 2026Dr. Fleming argues that since the birth of classical liberalism in the seventeenth century, a century...
Fiction Reviews
Mission To America – by Walter Kirn
May 12, 2026Walter Kirn’s Mission to America has a confused, nearly schizophrenic, personality, which isn’t necessarily a negative.
Medicine
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
May 12, 2026Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 12, 2026Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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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