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A Boy’s View of a World War
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O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
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Being Kidnapped at Knifepoint Is Not Enough to Change David Lida’s Love for Mexico City
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Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something
March 7, 2025"I had a rare congenital malformation in the blood vessels of my left hemisphere and at...
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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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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...
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
March 6, 2025Over the preceding two centuries, Ellis notes, a number of English, Scottish, and French thinkers had...
History
Imag(in)ing America
March 5, 2025The confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was to the Italians the “political, intellectual, and...
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
March 5, 2025Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades...
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Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
March 5, 2025Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Japan
Einstein in Japan
March 5, 2025The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
March 4, 2025If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
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The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
March 4, 2025Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as...
Art & Design
Frida Kahlo at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
March 4, 2025Art critics may speculate about the influences on Kahlo’s style or her place in modern art....
Biography
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
March 4, 2025More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Fiction Reviews
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
March 3, 2025Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...
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Gas City by Loren Estleman
March 3, 2025The characters and the settings in Gas City are rife with intriguing promise that never seems...
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
March 3, 2025All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
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House Recap: ‘The C-Word’ (Season 8, Episode 19)
May 8, 2026That wasn’t as bad as I feared. Wilson’s alive (for now) and it looks like next...
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House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
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The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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