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What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
June 25, 2026And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
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God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
June 24, 2026For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
June 24, 2026But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
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Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
June 23, 2026"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
June 23, 2026Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
June 23, 2026This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
June 23, 2026Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
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Worries of a Liberal Conservative
June 23, 2026My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Philosophy
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
June 21, 2026I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Writers
My Father’s World
June 21, 2026In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
June 21, 2026Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Russia
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
June 21, 2026"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Canada
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
June 21, 2026By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
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The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
June 21, 2026By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
History
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
June 20, 2026Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
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Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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