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3 Reasons to Kick the Smoking Habit and How to Get Started
July 13, 2026While smoking has been seeing a steady decline across the United States due to a better...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Stephen Baker Discusses The Numerati
July 12, 2026"The Internet, of course, is a huge source of data. Every click and keystroke can be...
Death
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
July 12, 2026"For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware...
Great Britain
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
July 12, 2026Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Art & Design
X-ray Photographs of David Arky
July 12, 2026Duane Michals expressed it well when he said, “Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Best Books
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2008
July 12, 2026CLR writers select the best books of 2008.
History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 11, 2026Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
July 11, 2026But Pearce knows more fundamental rethinking will be necessary to keep our species going. “The worst...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
July 11, 2026If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
July 11, 2026That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
July 10, 2026At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
July 10, 2026So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gaia
July 10, 2026‘Can there have been any more inspiring vision this century than that of the Earth from...
Literary Themes
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 10, 2026These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
Biography
Casanova by Ian Kelly
July 10, 2026Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
Biography
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
July 9, 2026"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 9, 2026The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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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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