Non-Fiction Reviews
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
February 10, 2025I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
February 10, 2025"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Writers
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
February 10, 2025"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Guest Posts
5 Amazing Things You Need To Know About 3D Modeling With Maya
February 9, 20253D Modeling With Maya what you need to know. Maya by Autodesk is one of the...
Education
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
February 9, 2025Reminding the reader that the likes of Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein were...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
February 9, 2025Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Running, Rome, and Red Brigades
February 9, 2025I knew what was coming but it was always a thrill. Suddenly to our left the...
Fiction Reviews
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
February 8, 2025One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
Humor
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
February 8, 2025The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
Mathematics
Alfred S. Posamentier on the Fibonacci Numbers
February 8, 2025"The golden ratio is also quite ubiquitous in art and in architecture. We find it by...
Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
February 8, 2025The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived To Tell Her Tale
February 6, 2025I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
February 6, 2025And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Military
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace by Dang Thuy Tram
February 6, 2025Whether amputating a shrapnel-torn limb or performing an emergency appendectomy, Dr. Tram proved to be remarkably...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Terrors on Terra
February 6, 2025How grotesque it must have sounded to a child, and how frightening. Outdoors, the sun of...
History
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
February 6, 2025In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Movies
Is There a Doctor in the House?
February 6, 2025She smoked a lot, but she laughed a lot too. I could easily support her, I...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen
February 5, 2025"By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
February 5, 2025In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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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