Military
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
April 3, 2025On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
Fiction Reviews
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
April 3, 2025Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
April 3, 2025"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Archeology
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
April 2, 2025When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
April 2, 2025The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
April 2, 2025The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Thrillers
Rain Gods By James Lee Burke
April 1, 2025Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
April 1, 2025The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
China
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
April 1, 2025It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
March 31, 2025The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
March 31, 2025Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
March 31, 2025The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
March 31, 2025This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
Fiction Reviews
Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
March 30, 2025In the end, the story of Valeria and her Hungarian town is about the sheer difficulty...
Fiction Reviews
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
March 30, 2025The personal suffering always hinges on the political. When Daadi was a little girl, her best...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
March 30, 2025For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
March 30, 2025One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 13, 2025The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
April 12, 2025Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
April 8, 2025And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Art & Design
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
April 4, 2025The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
April 6, 2025But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
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