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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
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So Many Ways To Begin by Jon McGregor
June 2, 2026David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely...
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Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
June 2, 2026The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
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The Fighter by Craig Davidson
June 1, 2026James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and William T. Vollmann have some new company hanging out on their...
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Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 1, 2026This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
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The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 1, 2026To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
June 1, 2026He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...
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Friendship is the First Step to Peace: A Review of Picture Books that Highlight Our Getting Along
June 1, 2026Sometimes, feeling different is the root of feeling lonely. Ezra Jack Keats’ whimsical Regards To The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
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A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
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After Dark by Haruki Murakami
May 30, 2026This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...
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Book of Hours
May 30, 2026Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
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On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
May 29, 2026Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Sophie Osborn on Saving the California Condor
May 29, 2026"I think hunters need to start demanding more research into the human health impacts of hunting...
Non-Fiction Reviews
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Discusses Hip Hop’s Attitude Toward Women
May 29, 2026"The title was inspired by Snoop Dogg. It captures the ethos of the new gender politics...
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Once Upon A Time
May 29, 2026Suppose one’s made a viable, literate translation that succeeds in conveying the narrative or expository sense...
Fiction Reviews
An Interview With Novelist Nicole Mones
May 29, 2026"I know food is hot right now – we have the Food Network – but believe...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview With “Pistol Pete” Maravich Biographer Mark Kriegel
May 29, 2026"One of the components of genius, I would argue, is an unnaturally high tolerance for practice....
Architecture
An Interview With Louis Kahn Biographer Carter Wiseman
May 28, 2026"I think the most powerful common thread running through Kahn’s work was his humanity. He seems...
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Allen Shawn Discusses Phobias
May 28, 2026"When I finally encountered the concept of ‘agoraphobia’, I recognized myself. I have an intense fear...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
June 20, 2026A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Art
Photo Essay: North Korean Propaganda Posters
July 3, 2026Posters are visual illustrations of the slogans that surround the people of North Korea constantly. North...
Non-Fiction Reviews
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
June 23, 2026The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Jennifer Sey on the Harsh World of Elite Gymnastics
June 27, 2026From what I witnessed, and certainly in my experience, many of the high level coaches in...
Military
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Science
Susskind Quashes Hawking in Quarrel Over Quantum Quandary
June 30, 2026"The next generation of physicists and cosmologists will have the fun and excitement of discovering the...
True Crime
Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
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Einstein in Japan
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Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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