Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Native American
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Movies
Movie Review: The Maid
April 11, 2025It’s in this last third of the film that Catalina Saavedra’s performance as Raquel carries the...
Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
April 11, 2025She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
Movies
Movie Review: Amelia
April 11, 2025Furthermore, Nair chooses to play it safe by directing an uninspiring paint-by-numbers biopic complete with voice-overs...
Fiction Reviews
Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
April 11, 2025As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
Movies
Movie Review: Paranormal Activity
April 10, 2025The film falls short by arranging a regrettably thin layer of spooky occurrences beneath a thicker...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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....
Fiction Reviews
The Child Thief by Brom
April 10, 2025There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
Movies
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Movies
Movie Review: Zombieland
April 9, 2025Zombieland elicits comparison to both the Brit “romzomcom” (romantic zombie comedy) and Dawn of the Dead...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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,...
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...
Military
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
June 19, 2026The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Einstein in Japan
June 30, 2026The cult of Einstein reached the point where university officials in Fukuoka preserved the blackboard on...
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