An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman
December 4, 2025"The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a...
Orchestras, Oboes and Orgies
December 3, 2025"I was honest about my own behavior and that of others, yet stopped short of revealing...
An Interview With Freud Biographer Peter D. Kramer
December 1, 2025"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
An Interview With Biographer James Connor
November 27, 2025"This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence....
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....

Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...

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...
Book Review: Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
October 11, 2025For an artist who vied with Rembrandt in painting self-portraits, van Gogh seldom allowed himself to...
Book Review: Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad
October 4, 2025Perhaps, the best way of approaching Conrad’s book is to regard it primarily as a meditation...






