Performing Arts
Daniel Barenboim at La Scala
June 15, 2026Drama number three was the presence on the podium of Daniel Barenboim, the child prodigy born...
Saudi Arabia
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 15, 2026In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
Thrillers
The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke
June 15, 2026Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 14, 2026In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
June 14, 2026Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
Books
Murdering Miss Austen
June 14, 2026Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
June 14, 2026The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
June 13, 2026Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
Fiction Reviews
City of Fire By Robert Ellis
June 13, 2026There are red herrings aplenty, but once finished reading the novel I’m left with a sense...
Fiction Reviews
The Headmaster’s Dilemma by Louis Auchincloss
June 13, 2026There is another criticism that Auchincloss has had to counter in his long and illustrious career...
Fiction Reviews
Gentlemen and Players
June 13, 2026Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
June 12, 2026This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
June 12, 2026Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
June 12, 2026There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
Fiction Reviews
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
June 12, 2026Though the notorious Roth voice is often manic and crude, we assume that coming from a...
Fiction Reviews
Trashed by Alison Gaylin
June 11, 2026These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the...
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,...
Psychology
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
June 11, 2026‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Thrillers
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
June 11, 2026A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Crossing Styx
June 10, 2026What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
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,...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Military
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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