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Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
April 12, 2025The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Movie Review: The Maid
April 11, 2025It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
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Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
April 11, 2025She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
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Movie Review: Amelia
April 11, 2025Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
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Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
April 11, 2025As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
April 10, 2025The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
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The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
April 10, 2025The unit of measure is a “Darwin,” so named by famed geneticist J. B. S. Haldane....
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The Child Thief by Brom
April 10, 2025There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are
April 10, 2025Although studios balked at the film’s maturity, believing it might be too scary for children, it...
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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
April 9, 2025Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
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Movie Review: Zombieland
April 9, 2025Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
Biography
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex
April 9, 2025And those names: JenniferBlowdryer, Sinnamon Love. Sebastian Horsely, a male prostitute, of course. Horsely advocates the...
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The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
April 9, 2025The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
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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...
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The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
April 8, 2025Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
April 8, 2025Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Architecture
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...
History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
April 7, 2025Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Medicine
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
April 7, 2025In this great country, for all its goodness, and for all the excellence of the medical...
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...
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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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