Fiction Reviews
Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
March 29, 2025A man is found dead in a bathtub, brandy is poured and the whodunit game grows...
Food
Movie Review: Food, Inc.
March 28, 2025Shocking and heartbreaking, Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Yellowstone Drift: All of This Begins Here
March 28, 2025The Yellowstone steadily flows down to the Missouri, then Mississippi and finally the Gulf of Mexico,...
Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
March 28, 2025Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
Non-Fiction Reviews
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
March 27, 2025Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
Fiction Reviews
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
March 27, 2025For people who liked Johnson’s recent National Book Award winner Tree of Smoke or his drug-laden...
Fiction Reviews
Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
March 27, 2025Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first...
Fiction Reviews
Castle by J. Robert Lennon
March 27, 2025For all his derision, arrogance, and unreliability, Eric Loesch is not an unsympathetic protagonist. In fact,...
Biography
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
March 27, 2025For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
March 26, 2025Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
March 26, 2025There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
Non-Fiction Reviews
No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech by Lucinda Roy
March 26, 2025After mailing a package of video files and documents to NBC, Cho left for Norris Hall...
Movies & TV
Who is Rita, What Was She?
March 26, 2025Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
March 25, 2025Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Fiction Reviews
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
March 25, 2025For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Fiction Reviews
Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
March 25, 2025To take on one of Dorsey’s books is to suspend notions of political correctness (thankfully) and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
March 25, 2025When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
Art
Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 23, 2025Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
Science
Celebrating Galileo in Florence
March 23, 20252009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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,...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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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