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Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
July 24, 2022Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
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Agriculture
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
July 24, 2022For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
July 24, 2022In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
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African American
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
July 24, 2022When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
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Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
July 23, 2022Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
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Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 23, 2022In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 23, 2022There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
July 22, 2022Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 22, 2022Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 22, 2022Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
July 22, 2022On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
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China
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
July 21, 2022Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 21, 2022Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 21, 2022No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 21, 2022Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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History
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 21, 2022America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
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Biography
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 20, 2022“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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Humor
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
July 20, 2022Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
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Biography
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
July 20, 2022Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 22, 2022Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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History
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 18, 2022Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
July 21, 2022No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
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African American
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 21, 2022Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
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Art
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 23, 20222009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
July 19, 2022"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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Art
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 23, 2022In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Biography
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
July 17, 2022At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
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Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
August 2, 2022Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
August 6, 2022Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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