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Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
July 18, 2026In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
July 18, 2026Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 17, 2026There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 17, 2026Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 17, 2026Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 17, 2026Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 15, 2026No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Fiction Reviews
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
July 15, 2026On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 15, 2026America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
History
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 15, 2026“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Literary Themes
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 14, 2026Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
July 14, 2026Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
July 14, 2026How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
Politics
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
July 13, 2026President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
July 13, 2026"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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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...
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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