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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
July 22, 2026Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
Fiction Reviews
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
July 22, 2026A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Agriculture
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
July 22, 2026Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
July 22, 2026Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
July 21, 2026The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
July 21, 2026Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
Fiction Reviews
Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
July 21, 2026Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
July 21, 2026For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
Music
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 21, 2026For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Fiction Reviews
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
July 20, 2026For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 20, 2026Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
July 20, 2026There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
Movies
Who is Rita, What Was She?
July 20, 2026Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Non-Fiction Reviews
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
July 19, 2026After mailing a package of video files and documents to NBC, Cho left for Norris Hall...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
July 19, 2026Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Fiction Reviews
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
July 19, 2026For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
July 19, 2026To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
July 19, 2026When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 18, 2026Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
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
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Dance
Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Swan Lake
November 8, 2026The dual-role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake is well-known -- probably more now than ever, thanks...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
October 27, 2026By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 13, 2026There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
History
The Civil War Begins: An Exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
November 4, 2026These are not merely newspapers, letters, transcripts of speeches and official reports from the 1850's through...
Movies & TV
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
November 11, 2026Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
Performing Arts
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
October 28, 2026For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Fight Night Champion
November 11, 2026At the end of the day Fight Night Champion, when it works, proves to be a...
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