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Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
December 10, 2025According to Becker, man is torn between his symbolic, self-conscious awareness and his animal nature. The...
Fiction Reviews
The Collector by John Fowles
December 10, 2025Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Collapse: How Nations Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
December 10, 2025By the time the first Europeans visited Easter in 1722, the Island was nearly uninhabited, virtually...
Fiction Reviews
Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
December 9, 2025Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret E. Savoy, Eldridge M. Moores, Judith E. Moores
December 9, 2025How do we understand the natural forces that literally shape our world? How, over time have...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
December 9, 2025Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet
December 9, 2025Naturally, the publishing of this book complete with its intrigue, loose morals, and the real citizens’...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn
December 8, 2025No one knows for certain who first uttered the notorious statement that "the only good Indian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America by Eric Rauchway
December 8, 2025Academics often say that there are two ways to use history: As a means to understand...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos and the Murder of Jose Robles by Steven Koch
December 8, 2025A ghost is a spirit who won't stay dead.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World’s Best Poems
December 8, 2025Blest be anyone who, in this age of meretricious materialism, nascent narcissism, and hapless hedonism, returns...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Casting a Spell: The Bamboo Fly Rod and the American Pursuit of Perfection by George Black
December 8, 2025Some years ago, back in the days of its relative anonymity, fly fishing was considered an...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
December 8, 2025Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
Fiction Reviews
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan by John Coyne
December 7, 2025At the risk of being cold-hearted, though after reading this book I don’t seem to care...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American Sucker – by David Denby
December 7, 2025The emotional trauma exposed a vulnerability that lay beneath all outward signs of success: a career...
Fiction Reviews
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
December 7, 2025Where do I start with Annie Proulx? Where does anyone start with Annie Proulx? Certainly not...
Fiction Reviews
The Athena Factor by W. Michael Gear
December 7, 2025In The Athena Factor W. Michael Gear explores the compelling and in many ways horrifying world...
Mystery
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
December 7, 2025Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Argumentative Indian: Writings On Indian History, Culture and Identity by by Amartya Sen
December 6, 2025The Argumentative Indian is a discussion on the genesis and direction of the Indian identity, in...
Fiction Reviews
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
December 6, 2025Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel, All Whom I Have Loved is indeed a riveting, if ominous tale,...
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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