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Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 16, 2025Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasant return to classic stop-motion animation, a technique little used anymore....
Art
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,...
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Movie Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
April 15, 2025Robin Wright plays Pippa, a beautiful, pastel-clad homemaker nearing her 50s. As the movie opens, her...
Movies
Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles
April 15, 2025Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and...
Fiction Reviews
Love and Summer by William Trevor
April 15, 2025Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
Movies
Movie Review: New Moon
April 15, 2025The movie positively drags at two hours eleven minutes; when the kids at the front of...
Movies
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
April 15, 2025Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Art
Directions: John Gerrard at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
April 14, 2025So what are today’s landscape artists telling us? In his eponymous show at the Hirshhorn, John...
Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
April 14, 2025Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs by Jeni Stepanek
April 14, 2025He explains it in his journals as “Whatever it is that a person needs or wants,...
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Movie Review: Pirate Radio
April 14, 2025Aside from the lack of a true protagonist, a number of small story arcs fall a...
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
April 13, 2025Her jail term of one hundred and five days was the culmination of an eight-month ordeal....
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,...
Thrillers
Under the Dome by Stephen King
April 13, 2025Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of...
Movies
Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats
April 13, 2025Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey
April 13, 2025The 19th century science known as phrenology — which posited that the human skull conforms to...
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The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
April 12, 2025She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Art & Design
Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
April 12, 2025The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
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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...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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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...
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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