Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
June 30, 2026Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
Biography
Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
June 30, 2026Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
Fiction Reviews
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
June 30, 2026Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
June 29, 2026If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
Fiction Reviews
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
June 29, 2026Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...
Art
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 29, 2026Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
Fiction Reviews
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
June 29, 2026Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
June 28, 2026More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
June 28, 2026All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate...
Fiction Reviews
Gas City by Loren Estleman
June 28, 2026The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
Great Britain
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
June 28, 2026Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Mathematics
The Best American Science Writing 2007
June 27, 2026Jonathon Keats’s article from Popular Science recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
June 27, 2026Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
June 26, 2026Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
June 26, 2026The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
June 26, 2026Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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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
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...
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...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
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
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
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...
Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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