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Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
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...
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
July 21, 2025Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
July 9, 2025This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
July 2, 2025Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
June 26, 2025Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...




