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Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
May 28, 2026"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
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Brave New West: Something Entirely Different
May 27, 2026Are environmentalists really prepared to embrace a simpler, less materialistic life? Or do they still want...
Movies & TV
Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Believers and Infidels
May 27, 2026For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
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Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Music
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
May 27, 2026Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
Fiction Reviews
Brontë in Brussels
May 27, 2026I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
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The Power of Art by Simon Schama
May 26, 2026For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
Great Britain
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
Fiction Reviews
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
May 26, 2026Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
Biography
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 25, 2026The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...
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The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly
May 25, 2026However, many contemporary English writers retain the essential nature of their culture. While they have, in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology by Stewart Justman
May 25, 2026Imagine, for a second, that instead of claiming the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit...
Religion
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
May 25, 2026Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld
May 24, 2026He was a discoverer and an inventor, a physicist and a chemist, intensely focused on his...
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Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One, Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
May 24, 2026He has taken it upon himself to examine society’s present milieu under the lens of traditional...
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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,...
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Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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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...
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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