All posts tagged "twentieth century"
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 25, 2026She 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
July 15, 2026Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Books
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Art
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
March 23, 2026But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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History
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
March 7, 2026The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Great Britain
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
December 6, 2025Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
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