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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,...
Art
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...
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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...
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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...
Movies
Movie Review: The Informant!
April 7, 2025Perhaps the most ingenious part of Whitacre’s affect (and the film) is his stream-of-consciousness inner monologue....
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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
April 7, 2025Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf
April 6, 2025The Otherkin Resource Center (ORC) exists for people who don’t believe they are human. Elves, vampires,...
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The Twelve by William Gladstone
April 6, 2025This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
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Movie Review: 9
April 6, 2025The film is truly gorgeous to behold. Starz Animation has officially given Pixar a run for...
Fiction Reviews
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
April 6, 2025But, as we see in the terrifying drawings of his radiologist father giving him neck adjustments—“kkrraackk,”...
Movies
Movie Review: The September Issue
April 5, 2025From pink to black and from Paris to Bryant Park, this flashy documentary by R.J. Cutler...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
April 5, 2025Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
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The Big Machine by Victor LaValle
April 5, 2025The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer...
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Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
April 5, 2025Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
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The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
April 5, 2025She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
Movies
Movie Review: Taking Woodstock
April 4, 2025Though his oeuvre includes everything from melodrama to martial arts, Lee’s most endearing projects are intimate,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Art
The Drawings of Alfred Kubin
July 8, 2026Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his hallucinatory incantations he was seeking to disturb...
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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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