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The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson
February 15, 2025This long, well documented book by Rick Atkinson is one of the best accounts of any...
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Gentlemen and Players
February 15, 2025Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
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Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
February 15, 2025Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
February 15, 2025There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
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Trashed by Alison Gaylin
February 14, 2025These driven individuals scour celebrity garbage cans, pose as anyone but themselves, lie as though the...
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Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
February 14, 2025Though the notorious Roth voice is often manic and crude, we assume that coming from a...
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What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
February 14, 2025‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
February 14, 2025This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Crossing Styx
February 13, 2025What happens to children is that they usually pass from believing that everything presented by television...
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The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
February 13, 2025A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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Notes from Italy: Romulus and Neighbors
February 13, 2025The next time you go to Rome, take a half-day to go to Pomezia, just south...
Horror
Mike Carey: Novelist and Comic Writer
February 13, 2025"People too content with their lot make lousy protagonists. (laughs) There has to be a source...
Fiction Reviews
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
February 12, 2025Goodwin now returns with another mystery, a tale as exotic as the first one, delicious in...
History
Almost a Miracle by John Ferling
February 12, 2025As contemplated by Ferling, few, if any, colonial Americans escaped the impact of hostilities. Wars were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
February 12, 2025Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
February 12, 2025Silvio’s tale proceeds to unravel the neighborhood secrets, as he uncovers them with a skill that...
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Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
February 10, 2025The novel is set in the lake country of northern Minnesota and the wilds of bordering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
Military
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
February 10, 2025He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....
Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
February 10, 2025These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
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...
Military
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
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
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
February 20, 2025"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Science
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...
Sports
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...
Religion
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....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Julian The Apostate
March 6, 2025But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we...
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