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,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 11, 2026Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce
July 11, 2026But Pearce knows more fundamental rethinking will be necessary to keep our species going. “The worst...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
July 11, 2026If we are what we eat, then Marcella Hazan, the author of what are often recognized...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
July 11, 2026That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hollywood Lives: George C. Scott and Tony Curtis
July 10, 2026At the airport, customs agents discovered a bag of marijuana and a handgun inside his baggage....
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
July 10, 2026So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Mythology
Gaia
July 10, 2026‘Can there have been any more inspiring vision this century than that of the Earth from...
Mystery
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Casanova by Ian Kelly
July 10, 2026Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
History
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Great Britain
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
July 9, 2026A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Science
What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
July 9, 2026"But then an asteroid 6 miles across – that’s bigger than Mt. Everest! – slammed into...
Fiction Reviews
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 9, 2026The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Writers
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
July 7, 2026It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
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
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...
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,...
Historical Fiction
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
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...
African American
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...
Biography
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...
Russia
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...
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