Fiction Reviews
American Atlas by Dan Gerber
December 6, 2025American Atlas is something of a road book with the protagonist a rich guy around thirty...
Politics
Absolute Friends – by John Le Carré
December 6, 2025He finished his schooling in England and then moved on to a period of sexually charged...
Non-Fiction Reviews
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
December 6, 2025Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
Biography
The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino
December 5, 2025Rock biographies, particularly of bands, are an odd subgenre. With an individual singer or instrumentalist, the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Chance Meeting: by Rachel Cohen
December 5, 2025In this, her debut book, Harvard graduate Rachel Cohen weaves a literary tapestry encompassing the lives...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White
December 5, 2025"When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
About My Sisters – by Debra Ginsberg
December 5, 2025Ginsberg writes in vivid fly-on-the-wall detail about the complex relationships she has with each of her...
Fiction Reviews
Mystery Writer Vicki Stiefel
December 5, 2025"I have a general idea where I'm going, but Tally and Company take me there. They...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Amanda Eyre Ward
December 4, 2025"I am most fascinated when a straightforward story seems to hold hidden complexities. Every conversation holds...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
December 4, 2025"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
Music
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
December 3, 2025"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Who Killed JFK? – An Interview With Lamar Waldron
December 3, 2025"...we discovered that JFK and his brother had a never-before-revealed plan to stage a coup against...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Author Mary Roach
December 3, 2025"Helen Duncan is my favorite. Huge, chain-smoking woman who used to swoon and occasionally pee herself...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Indu Sundaresan
December 3, 2025"In the initial foray into reading for each of the novels, there is always a lot...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Fred Pearce
December 3, 2025"But water also defines quite well our problems in moving from a world of apparently plentiful...
Science
An Interview with Michael Ruse
December 2, 2025"I do not think it appropriate to teach non-science in a biology class – especially non-science...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Richard Reeves
December 2, 2025"I found out, greatly to my surprise, that almost all of the conventional wisdom that I...
Fiction Reviews
A Visit With Author Colleen McCullough
December 2, 2025“I thought I should live closer, but I didn’t want to be on the same piece...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Linguist Nicholas Ostler
December 2, 2025"...This is clearly boosting English learning at the moment, but there are already signs that something...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mullahs, Mini Skirts and Carson Daly
December 2, 2025“Part of the richness of the home culture I come from and what makes it fascinating...
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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