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
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
July 8, 2026"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Disability
Driftless by David Rhodes
July 8, 2026In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
July 8, 2026The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Biography
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Books
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
July 7, 2026Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
History
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
July 7, 2026"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Politics
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
July 5, 2026Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski
July 5, 2026Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, The Gulf Stream describes and mammoth...
Non-Fiction Reviews
David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
July 5, 2026"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
Fiction Reviews
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
July 5, 2026Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
July 5, 2026Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
July 5, 2026"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
July 5, 2026The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
July 5, 2026Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Fiction Reviews
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
July 4, 2026Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster
July 4, 2026But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
July 4, 2026The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
July 4, 2026He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
July 18, 20262009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 15, 2026Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
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
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 12, 2026Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Art & Design
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
July 27, 2026Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
July 10, 2026These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
July 18, 2026In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
July 22, 2026"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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