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Richard Lanham Discusses the “Attention Economy”
December 2, 2025"All around us we see signs of this confusion. Americans are often called a "materialistic" people...
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An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer
December 1, 2025"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...
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An Interview With Architect Charles Jencks
December 1, 2025"Narcissism? Culture in decline? It's the whole world. Venice was narcissistic, full of iconic buildings, and...
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An Interview With Jonathan Kaplan
December 1, 2025"I was in Baghdad as a volunteer surgeon, but operating was difficult. The city’s hospitals had...
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An Interview With Scott Zesch
December 1, 2025"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Nancy Means Wright
December 1, 2025"I guess liking mysteries goes back to Aristotle, who said we read or watch tragedy because...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
November 30, 2025"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...
Fiction Reviews
Timothy Watts Interview
November 30, 2025"He's actually a pretty good mechanic and somewhere in Philadelphia he's running a pretty successful chop...
History
An Interview With Chilton Williamson
November 29, 2025"I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade,...
Mystery
Bush Tea with Alexander McCall Smith
November 29, 2025"I believe that people are very interested in reading about the ordinary things of life. One...
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False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
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Camille Paglia Discusses Her New Book Break, Blow, Burn
November 29, 2025"American culture is swamped with dizzying media images, which have become a primary form of communication....
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Straddling Two Cultures
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Sex
Confessions of a Porn Writer
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An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
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An interview with Jimmy Kaufman, Editor of “The Freedom Book”
November 28, 2025"The book is a conversation about freedom that seeks to inspire the reader to think for...
Writers
An Interview With Joanne Harris
November 28, 2025"There is a universality to food that makes it easily accessible to the reader, and a...
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An Interview With James Hollis
November 27, 2025James Hollis James Hollis, Ph. D. is Executive Director of the Jung Center of Houston, TX,...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford
November 27, 2025"Nobody writes good things about New Jersey at all. And I thought, well, maybe that would...
Movies
Stripping the Town of Tinsel
November 27, 2025Hilary de Vries The dot com slump, a shift in journalistic standards in the celebrity-driven Hollywood...
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...
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George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
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Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
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Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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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...
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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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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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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