Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
March 14, 2025Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Animals
What’s Killing the Honeybees?
March 14, 2025"So the bigger conclusion is that we have soaked our landscape in toxic chemicals, many of...
Fiction Reviews
Driftless by David Rhodes
March 13, 2025In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
March 13, 2025It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
March 13, 2025The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
Books
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
Military
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
March 13, 2025The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Vietnam
Events Leading to America’s Involvement in Vietnam
March 12, 2025Given the political vacuum in the South, a Communist takeover of all of Vietnam within two...
Politics
Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India
March 12, 2025"India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed...
Nature
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Stan Ulanski
March 12, 2025Aside from providing an easily assimilated scientific and historical overview, The Gulf Stream describes and mammoth...
Non-Fiction Reviews
David Harris on Bill Walsh, the Brilliant Coach of the San Francisco 49ers
March 12, 2025"Once, as an assistant coach at Cal, he knocked a guy out who flipped him the...
Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
March 11, 2025Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
Death
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
March 11, 2025Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christine MacDonald on the Corruption of the Environmental Movement
March 11, 2025"But after watching environmentalists blatantly engage in greenwashing for their corporate sponsors, I can tell you...
Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
March 11, 2025The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Fiction Reviews
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
March 11, 2025Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
March 10, 2025Had Sitting Bull and his war chiefs reacted in the customary skirmishing style of Plains Indian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
March 10, 2025The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
Art & Design
Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel at Rome’s Sancta Sanctorum
April 15, 2025Born in Antwerp in 1554, Bril was working in Italy at the end of the century,...
Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 13, 2025The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder
April 12, 2025Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man...
Art
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 2, 2025Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
April 17, 2025Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Art
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
April 8, 2025And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
Art & Design
Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
April 4, 2025The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
April 6, 2025But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
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