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Non-Fiction Reviews
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
November 21, 2023"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
November 21, 2023But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
November 20, 2023Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
November 20, 2023This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
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Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
November 20, 2023Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
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Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
November 20, 2023Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
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Biography
My Father’s World
November 19, 2023In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
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Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
November 19, 2023I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
November 19, 2023My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
November 19, 2023Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
November 19, 2023"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
November 18, 2023By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
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Canada
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
November 18, 2023By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
November 18, 2023Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Art & Design
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
November 18, 2023Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
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Military
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
November 18, 2023Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
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Italy
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
November 17, 2023A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
November 17, 2023His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
November 17, 2023‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Photography
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
November 17, 2023The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
November 9, 2023This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
November 30, 2023Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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Italy
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
November 17, 2023A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
November 7, 2023Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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Photography
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
November 17, 2023The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
November 14, 2023"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
November 6, 2023I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Religion
Julian The Apostate
November 27, 2023But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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History
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
November 22, 2023For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
November 8, 2023A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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