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Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Writers
My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
February 25, 2025I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Fiction Reviews
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
February 25, 2025Often written in a quiet, understated style that belies the madness and violence that seep through...
Africa
Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
February 25, 2025"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
Canada
Fortune’s a River by Barry Gough
February 25, 2025By the closing years of the 18th century the stage was set for a major international...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
February 24, 2025By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...
Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Art
The Life and Art of J.M.W. Turner
February 24, 2025Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...
Africa
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
February 24, 2025Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Art & Design
Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii
February 23, 2025A favourite theme which recurred again and again in wall paintings was the satyr creeping up...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
February 23, 2025‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Australia
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
February 23, 2025His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Falluja: Photos from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
February 23, 2025The captured fighter claimed to be a student who had gotten stuck in Falluja. A Marine...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
February 23, 2025Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
February 22, 2025If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Comrade J by Pete Earley
February 22, 2025It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
Art
Mirror of the World by Julian Bell
February 22, 2025It was partly in reaction to the religious discord and iconoclasm of the Reformation, that artists...
Mythology
Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness
February 20, 2025"In waking we tend to think The Dream vanishes, evaporates in daylight like morning dew on...
Fiction Reviews
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,...
Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Post Mortem’ (Season 8, Episode 20)
May 4, 2026So is House achieving emotional balance, just in time to lose his best (only) friend? Is...
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Movies & TV
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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Movies & TV
House Recap: ‘Holding On’ (Season 8, Episode 21)
May 1, 2026Sometimes the worst thing about being a pessimist is how often you’re right. I would have...
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
April 29, 2026A recap/review of The Killing Sayonara, Hiawatha (Season 2, Episode 9)
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Movies & TV
The Killing Recap: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
May 4, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Keylela (Season 2, Episode 7)
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The Office Recap: Free Family Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
May 3, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Family Free Portrait Studio (Season 8, Episode 24)
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The KillingRecap: Off The Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
May 2, 2026A recap/review of The Killing: Off the Reservation (Season 2, Episode 8)
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Mad Men Recap: “At the Codfish Ball” (Season 5, Episode 7)
May 7, 2026Sunday’s Mad Men was a bit of a doozie, and I’m late to the ball due...
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The Office Recap: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
May 6, 2026A recap/review of The Office: Turf War (Season 8, Episode 23)
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