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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
March 2, 2025Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
March 1, 2025The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
March 1, 2025Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns
March 1, 2025"Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their...
Italy
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Fiction Reviews
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
February 28, 2025And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
Music
The Rock Posters of Rich Black
February 28, 2025A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Religion
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
February 27, 2025But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
February 27, 2025"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
February 27, 2025This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
February 26, 2025Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
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Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
February 26, 2025Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
Writers
Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Art & Design
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
March 9, 2025Posters 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
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Art & Design
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 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
March 22, 2025Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
March 18, 2025Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
March 6, 2025"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
March 2, 2025From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
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