History
An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
November 30, 2025"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...
Fiction Reviews
Timothy Watts Interview
November 30, 2025"He's actually a pretty good mechanic and somewhere in Philadelphia he's running a pretty successful chop...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Chilton Williamson
November 29, 2025"I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade,...
Fiction Reviews
Bush Tea with Alexander McCall Smith
November 29, 2025"I believe that people are very interested in reading about the ordinary things of life. One...
Non-Fiction Reviews
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
November 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Camille Paglia Discusses Her New Book Break, Blow, Burn
November 29, 2025"American culture is swamped with dizzying media images, which have become a primary form of communication....
India
Straddling Two Cultures
November 29, 2025Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni It happened in 1976 when Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was all of 19. Walking...
Movies & TV
Confessions of a Porn Writer
November 28, 2025“I had been hired to write a movie for the Playboy channel – soft porn. I...
Religion
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An interview with Jimmy Kaufman, Editor of “The Freedom Book”
November 28, 2025"The book is a conversation about freedom that seeks to inspire the reader to think for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Joanne Harris
November 28, 2025"There is a universality to food that makes it easily accessible to the reader, and a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With James Hollis
November 27, 2025James Hollis James Hollis, Ph. D. is Executive Director of the Jung Center of Houston, TX,...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford
November 27, 2025"Nobody writes good things about New Jersey at all. And I thought, well, maybe that would...
Movies
Stripping the Town of Tinsel
November 27, 2025Hilary de Vries The dot com slump, a shift in journalistic standards in the celebrity-driven Hollywood...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tim Flannery Discusses Global Warming
November 27, 2025"Getting nations to cooperate is important, but I think a quicker solution will come from what...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
Biography
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Strange World of Quantum Entanglement
November 26, 2025"Entanglement is a strange feature of quantum physics, the science of the very small. It’s possible...
Movies & TV
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
November 26, 2025It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
Poetry
Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time
November 26, 2025We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
August 16, 2024The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...

Television
House Recap: ‘Body and Soul’ (Season 8, Episode 18)
November 22, 2025This was the fifth-to-last episode, by my count. Tonight we had nightmare visions, erotic dreams, an...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)
November 24, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Openings (Season 2, Episode 6)

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)
November 15, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Numb (Season 2, Episode 3)

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)
November 18, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ogi Jun (Season 2, Episode 4)

Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Blowing the Whistle’ (Season 8, Episode 15)
November 14, 2025Anyway, we open at the airport, where a young military family – mom, kid, dad covered...
Non-Fiction Reviews
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
November 29, 2025"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...
Architecture
Architecture and Modernism
November 25, 2025For Le Corbusier, true, great architecture – meaning, architecture motivated by the quest for efficiency –...

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)
November 21, 2025A recap/review of The Killing: Ghosts of the Past (Season 2, Episode 5)

Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Reflections + My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)
November 14, 2025A recap/review of The Killing- Reflections and My Lucky Day (Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2)

Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘We Need the Eggs’ (Season 8, Episode 17)
November 19, 2025I don’t know if others will agree, but I really, really liked this one. Funny, fast-paced,...














