Non-Fiction Reviews
Review of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
March 23, 2025In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Gray Wolf Press. 2019. Hardcover, The most impressive...
Fiction Reviews
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton
March 23, 2025Though we hope that love will conquer in the end, we are all too aware that...
Art & Design
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
March 23, 2025In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
March 23, 2025There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Military
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Archeology
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard
March 22, 2025Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...
Art
George Tooker at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
March 22, 2025Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...
China
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization by Alex Perry
March 22, 2025Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...
Art
The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
March 22, 2025No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...
Fiction Reviews
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
March 21, 2025On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
March 21, 2025America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
March 20, 2025Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Biography
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
March 20, 2025“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
March 20, 2025Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Fiction Reviews
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
March 20, 2025President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...
Art
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
March 19, 2025"There are a handful of original wildlife artists and the rest are members of the ‘elk...
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Other
3 Reasons to Kick the Smoking Habit and How to Get Started
March 19, 2025While smoking has been seeing a steady decline across the United States due to a better...
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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