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Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
December 19, 2025I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many...
Art & Design
Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
December 19, 2025The overall sensation evoked by examining the works on display in “Cezanne to Picasso,” however, is...
Iran
Roses & Bulbul Birds
December 19, 2025What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Sudden Onset
December 19, 2025From that first tingling in bed to calling 911 was an hour and a half. Sudden...
Fiction Reviews
Where No Gods Came – Sheila O’Connor
December 18, 2025Twelve year old Faina McCoy was living an idyllic life with her father near the beach...
History
Oil and Africa
December 18, 2025[Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Adam Robert’s new book The Wonga Coup: Guns,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
December 17, 2025O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
December 17, 2025Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
December 17, 2025Meanwhile, every billion dollars spent on the supremely misguided attempt to revivify the nuclear industry is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nick Bottom’s Blessing
December 17, 2025The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....
Non-Fiction Reviews
America’s Race to the Moon
December 17, 2025During the Apollo 15 mission, an anonymous viewer phoned his local TV station to suggest that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Death of Conscience in The Onion Field
December 16, 2025The stifling, frightening conclusion that we appear to be presented with in The Onion Field is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lola! Lola! Lola!
December 16, 2025The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Life of R.K. Narayan
December 16, 2025R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Liberalism, the Election, and the Republican Party
December 16, 2025With President George W. Bush’s recent victory the Democratic Party-referred to in prior times as the...
Sociology
Life, Death and Hip-Hop
December 16, 2025Within Hip-Hop we discover the struggle of the artist to make sense of their unjust world...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Importance of Henry Miller: A Letter From Father to Son
December 16, 2025Through this dark canopy of industrialism, greed and pollution certain small punctures have allowed minute shafts...
Movies
Spanish Cinema: Almodóvar and Amenábar
December 15, 2025With camp, hedonistic and sexually vulgar films, notable for their strong, flamboyant women and their comic,...
Literary Themes
No Heroes Need Apply
December 15, 2025By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the...
Writers
Stemming from … Nowhere?
December 14, 2025To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was...
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,...
History
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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