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...
True Crime
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 & Design
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...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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,...
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...
Art & Design
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
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...
Top Posts & Pages
Trending
Contributors
