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...
Book Review: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me by Jeff Dunham
June 25, 2025Jeff Dunham’s YouTube videos have been seen over 400 million times, his comedy DVDs have sold...
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
June 21, 2025Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
Book Review: Chords of Strength by David Archuleta
June 2, 2025It's no surprise that David has musical talent in his DNA. His father is a jazz...
Book Review: Unbillable Hours: A True Story by Ian Graham
May 26, 2025It was an appeal on behalf of Mario Rocha, a Los Angeleno of Mexican descent, who...
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...




