Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
July 29, 2026Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
July 29, 2026Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Religion
From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words
July 29, 2026Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of...
Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
July 28, 2026Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
Movies
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
July 28, 2026Smart though Tarantino may be, his self-aggrandizing filmic techniques grow old. Placing arrows and title cards...
Movies
Movie Review: District 9
July 28, 2026It is perhaps the most dystopian vision of alien contact ever filmed: the aliens are not...
Art
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
July 28, 2026The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Medicine
Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer
July 28, 2026On arriving at his small and isolated army base in Korea, Sloane is met by Larry...
Fiction Reviews
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
July 27, 2026Most of the narratives are first-person accounts by Mary, so readers get to know her very...
Great Britain
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
July 27, 2026Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
Art & Design
A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages
July 27, 2026When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that...
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
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
July 27, 2026"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Biography
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
July 26, 2026The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
July 26, 2026Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
July 25, 2026The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Fiction Reviews
Rain Gods By James Lee Burke
July 25, 2026Burke’s life has provided ample experience to draw from for his mysteries that feature world-wise and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
July 25, 2026The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan’s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
July 25, 2026Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple?...
Art
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
August 10, 2026Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Movies
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
August 5, 2026Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 7, 2026The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
August 8, 2026Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 1, 2026And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
July 31, 2026But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
August 16, 2026The novel opens with a striking, abrupt proclamation: “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first...
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