All posts tagged "twentieth century"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
August 23, 2025All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
History
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
July 23, 2025Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 23, 2025Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
June 15, 2025For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
April 5, 2025Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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...
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