Fiction Reviews
Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
May 12, 2026Kornwolf raises the question of whether or not one can endure one’s heritage. We all have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes – by Alex Vilenkin
May 11, 2026As childhood gave way to adulthood, I came to the realization that my greatest attraction to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz
May 11, 2026Imagine 32 famous actors looking you straight in the eye and flirting with you. (Marlee Matlin!...
Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
May 11, 2026Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
Environment
The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson
May 11, 2026Chilton Williamson definitely cares about the West. Every essay in his collection The Hundredth Meridian –...
Biography
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
May 10, 2026Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
May 10, 2026There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
May 10, 2026But rather than trace the rise of the institution of eating, Fagone focuses on the eaters...
Biography
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 10, 2026In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
May 10, 2026Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 10, 2026Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 9, 2026Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 9, 2026The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
Sociology
Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
May 8, 2026There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...
Art
The Dawn of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
May 8, 2026The statue is nicknamed “The Lady of Brussels” because its home museum is in Belgium. It...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 8, 2026Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
Music
Album review: Deuce’s Nine Lives
May 8, 2026...and we have achieved triple threat; misogyny, racism and homophobia. Quite an achievement for a guy...
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Humor
In the Therapist’s Chair: Kingdom Hearts and Minecraft
May 7, 2026What makes video games brutal is often their most basic premise. If you think too long...
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Movies & TV
Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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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